> Just adding one point: I think that anybody who wants to be
> involved in apologetics ought to read Pascal's _Pensees_ - which isn't
> to say that he got it all right! His dubious attitude toward natural
> theology should especially be noted.
> George Murphy
I greatly admire Pascal for his fresh creativity. I wish I had more time to
ponder the Pensees.
Marylin Vos Savant, in last Sunday's Parade, did a critique of Pascal's wager,
by the way. She pointed out that if you benefit from belief in God because of
the possibility of eternal life, then you should believe in the religion that
promises the most. The more promises, the more desirable it is to believe. If
the wager is argued separately from other arguments, this appears to devastate
the wager approach.
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