Update of Pascal’s Wager

February 4, 2009, 11:25 am by dc-agape.

I have been receiving some very interesting comments on my Pascal’s Wager post.  The most interesting part is that all of them have been in Russian and come from the same IP address, yet the writing style seems to indicate numerous individual.

The latest one is quite long and requires additional space to address, so I am making a post out of the response.

Hoaratix,

Your wording is rather difficult to translate, but here is my attempt using iGoogle:

You’re kidding … 21 at the yard, really there is nothing worthy of attention, as the Encyclopedia.  My Dear, that’s no snow vgordah, it is also the theme and story, review the topic.  I look at the mail, I send does not understand that, I do not know who, so much debris, it can and should be, but not in the diary.  I understand this is a diary of your soul.  We have the right to choose – use.  And there is no useless information.

My response to the parts that make sense…it is true that only the Encyclopedia makes sense, it is the information collected from the “natural” world.  Even the “supernatural” is only described from the “natural” perspective.  Part of that does not translate well, but the part about this being my “diary of my soul” is one way of looking at, except that Atheists do not have “souls”.  Part of my blog is an attempt at to describe the journey to becoming an Atheist.  But the other part of my blog is about reading the Holy Scriptures of the Abrahamic religions (yes, it will include the Quran). 

Your 2^nd to last sentence seem to point to a belief in freewill.  From a TrueChristian™ interpretation of the Word of God, this is not possible, check out my posts on Freewill to see what the Bible says about humanity’s freewill.

I will agree with you on the last sentence, there is no useless information.  But all information must be tested for its value.  If I tell you that there are invisible pink unicorns (IPUs) that control the world, would you believe me?  But the information about these IPU’s in useful, because it is sarcasms at organized religion.

Remember that numerous times the Bible clearly tells the followers of Jesus to weigh all the teachings.  Here are two examples:

1^st Co I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.

John 7:24 Stop judging by mere appearance, and make a right judgment.

So even though there is “no useless information”, some information is more valuable than others.

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