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Does the top video Strawman Pascal's wager?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. |
| asked on Monday, Mar 30, 2015 08:56:46 PM by Metaphysical Materialism1248 | |
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Honestly, 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 ). |
| answered on Monday, Mar 30, 2015 10:55:50 PM by Bo Bennett, PhD | |
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