Nick_Tarleton comments on The Least Convenient Possible World - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 04 January 2011 10:19:45AM 6 points [-]

Would you become a Catholic in this world? Or are you willing to admit that maybe your rejection of Pascal's Wager has less to do with a hypothesized pro-atheism God, and more to do with a belief that it's wrong to abandon your intellectual integrity on the off chance that a crazy deity is playing a perverted game of blind poker with your eternal soul?

I don't think I would be able to bring myself to worship honestly a God who bestowed upon us the ability to reason and then rewarded us for not using it.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 05 January 2011 01:58:04AM 5 points [-]

Would you want to, if you could? If so, given the stakes, you should try damn hard to make yourself able to.