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23 Post author: Aiyen 08 October 2014 09:02PM

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Comment author: Toggle 15 October 2014 09:50:08PM 0 points [-]

And let's not forget the hypothetical Trickster God, omnipotent ruler of the universe that sends all people that believe in Him to hell, and everyone else goes to heaven. In other words, Pascal's wager coexists with its exact inverse.

But even without the wager on the table, I think we can safely agree that the question of God's existence is high-stakes.