V_V comments on Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities - Less Wrong

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Comment author: V_V 12 December 2013 04:55:04PM 0 points [-]

Find a smart Christian and talk to her.

I don't think Pascal's wager is part of any form of mainstream Christian theology.

You might consider meme propagation and ruminate on why certain written down "random hypotheses" become religions and take over the world, while others don't.

I suggest this book: Religion Explained

Comment author: Lumifer 12 December 2013 05:04:21PM 1 point [-]

I don't think Pascal's wager is part of any form of mainstream Christian theology.

That was an answer to "I do actually want to know what the apparently so common christian reply to these arguments is".