Does the top video Strawman Pascal's wager?
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Original Question
If I understand Pascal's wager correctly, the wager is about giving people a reason to want to believe in the Christian god.
If you are an atheist and god exists, you will go hell (apparently being a atheist is a big enough crime to be tortured forever)
If you are an atheist and god does not exist, not much happens.
If you are a Christian and god exists, then you will go to heaven.
If you are a Christian and god does not exists, then you lose little.
The obvious problem with the wager is that it ignores every other possible god.
Here's a video refuting Pascal's wager using the refutation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZpJ7yUPwdU
And here a video claiming that the above video (and atheists in general) straw man Pascal's wager.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UmnWQ1c4Pw
I want to know if the top video (and myself and every other atheist who raised this objection) really strawmaning Pascal's wager.
If you are an atheist and god exists, you will go hell (apparently being a atheist is a big enough crime to be tortured forever)
If you are an atheist and god does not exist, not much happens.
If you are a Christian and god exists, then you will go to heaven.
If you are a Christian and god does not exists, then you lose little.
The obvious problem with the wager is that it ignores every other possible god.
Here's a video refuting Pascal's wager using the refutation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZpJ7yUPwdU
And here a video claiming that the above video (and atheists in general) straw man Pascal's wager.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UmnWQ1c4Pw
I want to know if the top video (and myself and every other atheist who raised this objection) really strawmaning Pascal's wager.
Answers
1Honestly, I cannot sit through that 15 minute "response" video. I am familiar with the qualiasoup videos and they are generally very good. If you let me know what part he is saying is a strawman, I can evaluate that. BTW, I have written a line by line analysis of Pascal's wager several years back (in my book, The Concept ).
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