Rebuttals to 'Betting on infinity'

Some good old argumentation, refuting theists' criticisms of the video QualiaSoup and I made on Pascal's wager, entitled 'Betting on infinity'.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• QualiaSoup
• rebuttal
• Pascal's
• wager
• plausible
• incredulity
• bizarre
• monotheism
• egocentric
• belief
• ritual
• rational
• science
• preachy

[googolplexbyte]

Why do you always assume those whom disagree with you, must be christian or even hold certain christian beliefs?

[TheraminTrees]

@googolplexbyte I don't

[googolplexbyte]

@TheraminTrees So you're saying what appeared to me to be assumptions in this video, such as the implication that one of those arguing with you believed about the noah's ark myth is a fact you knew to be true. My initial question was quite weighted. It should have been:

In this video how (and how much) did you know about the beliefs of the makers of the statements you were refuting?

[TheraminTrees]

@googolplexbyte 'My initial question was quite weighted. It should have been: In this video how (and how much) did you know about the beliefs of the makers of the statements you were refuting?'

—Where I refer to those beliefs, I'm conveying what's been explicitly expressed in exchanges/discussions — often, a tiny fragment of protracted discussions.

[mchandler2112]

"To stop asking the questions that lead you away from belief in God."

See, the problem with that is that you don't know whether the question will lead you away from God until you find the answer to it. Acknowledging this, the early church decided to punish ALL questioning of anything religious, and some things that had nothing to do with religion at all.

[Snakepliskinist]

@metsubo Yeah...but everyone loves to do things they are good at.

[metsubo]

@Snakepliskinist You love to nitpick, don't lie.

[googolplexbyte]

@TheraminTrees Oh okay, thanks for the quick responses.

[FomalhautBeer]

@FomalhautBeer to continue:

e) he is not a he, but a she or an it.

It's strange that people put forward Pascal's wager and suggest that the choice is between (their version of) the Christian God or no god at all.

This is like a pathologist investigating the cause of death of someone, and arriving at the conclusion that the person must either have died a natural death, or must have been killed by a 43 year old guy with light brown curly hair and a birth mark on his left shoulder.

[FomalhautBeer]

About 8) Also, the assumption is made, that if there is a God, he will reward us for believing in him, and punish us if we don't. However there is of course also the possibility that:

a) he will punish those that believe in him and reward those that don't,

b) he will punish us whether or not we believe in him

c) he resents the whole idea of "thought crimes" and will reward us, regardless of whether or not we believe in him (The Good God Hypothesis)

d) he exists but there is no afterlife

[Snakepliskinist]

Hate to nitpick, but your list of spiders said "cinnamon taratula"

[Furoar]

@gocrazy432 Common sense - if satire is easily confused for extremism, the satirist is not a good comedian and should find a new hobby because they are only serving up an annoying obstacle that misdirects productive efforts.