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Then there's my favorite, Pascal's Wager: "Why not accept my particular God? What do you have to lose?" Advocates of the Wager never seem to consider what Zeus's opinion might be.


Why would Zeus care? The greek afterlife is a sort of pointless outcome to Pascal's wager so it isn't even worth factoring in.


Why would Zeus care?

Well, once you start asking questions like that, the whole thing starts to unravel. Just play along, don't rock the boat.


Your assumption is that the advocates of the Wager give a damn about Zeus to be begin with which seems flawed to me.


No that's not his assumption. Pascal's wager is supposed to be an argument to believe in "God", but it is too general. It doesn't determine in which god. So the argument doesn't work.




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