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From: chrislee@netcom.com (Christopher A. Lee)
Subject: Re: BABY KILLING JESUS!!!
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In article <3p04hj$o78@bronze.coil.com> fritz@coil.com (Frank Friedman) writes:
>In article <3ougvf$n0s@condor.ic.net>, phil reed <pcr@ic.net> wrote: 
>>
>>Is Pascal's Wager the best you can do? (Hint: this was published over
>>100 years ago.)
>
>I could care less if it was published 1000 year ago!  If you choose not 
>to believe in a God, that is you choice.  If you really want to that 

Duh......

If your god created me as you claim, then it made me incapable of 
choosing to believe.

If it had provided some kind of evidence that would be another matter.

I would then believe, whether I wanted to or not. 

Why do theists insists that it's a matter of choice? Did they choose to 
delude themselves? Because that's what I would be doing.

>chance, I can't stop you.  

If if you really want to take the chance that the Moslems are right, I 
can't stop *you*.

>>In your little choice diagram here, you have left out a few 
>>possibilities. What happens, for example, if there is only one god, but
>>it's Odin and not Jehovah? You would be screwed for following the wrong
>>god. What happens if you use this logic to try to secure your way into
>>heaven, but your god looks in your heart and sees that your religion
>>is only a sham? Shot down again.
>
> secure my way into heaven... so are you admitting that there is one?

Can you say "for the sake of argument"? 

