Quote:If you were on this board claiming that the tooth fiary was real, I would be perfectly right to call your beliefs patently ridiculous. And yes, you refer to Pascal's Wager. It states, to summarize, "If god doens't exist and I worship him, no big lose when i die. If he does, and I fail to, I will be condemned to hell when I die. Therefore, it is only logical to believe in god."
Which is fine by me. You have the right to believe as
you wish. What you don't have is the right to tell me
my beliefs are 'patiently ridiculous'. However I guess the day
we die will answer everything or not. If you are right then
I'll never know I was wrong. If I'm right...when you die you
will. So ask me who's better off?
Which is fine, but what god? Jesus? The god of Abraham? Allah? Buddha? Wodin? Gaia? Eris? The Flying Spagetti Monster?
Which "god" is correct. There is no proof that any of them exist, and you are taking a huge wager in trying to please a god that may either not exist, or mya be opposed to your worship of a "false religon" and damn you to hell for it.
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I did? Where did I say that?
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I've never heard of virgins getting STDs
Quote:I suggest you read up on the doctrine of Papal Infallibility. I the Pope tomorrow declared that the Earth is carried on the back of a giant turtle and evoked his office in doing so then every Catholic must accept that as an article of faith.
You seem to be operating on the beleif taht he can say what he wants and it is taken as the holy word. Which isn't the case.
Granted you could deny it, but doing so basically makes you a protestant.
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