byrnema comments on Pascal's wager re-examined - Less Wrong

-8 Post author: PhilGoetz 05 October 2011 08:43AM

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Comment author: byrnema 04 October 2011 06:31:44PM 2 points [-]

Oh, I see. Pascal's wager depends upon:

religions that believe God will torture you forever or reward you forever based on your belief and don't believe that believing in exactly the right version is really important.

There's still logical room for the possibility that you are rewarded for having belief in any religion verses being atheist, but that would be overreaching. Because torture-or-reward-forever is one of the details, like the rule that you have to believe in this particular religion, that my imagined proposal wanted to dismiss.

Comment author: vi21maobk9vp 04 October 2011 06:54:01PM 0 points [-]

Funny enough, in "City of the Sun" this is the official stance: any religion (they have to be compatible with general peace) is better than atheism.