Who's Stupid Now?

I remember an episode of the Simpsons when Homer confronted Pascal's Wager - "What if we're worshiping the wrong god and we're just making her madder and madder?" 

And Homer was suppose to be stupid? 

We know that Pascal's Wager is just making the Black and White Fallacy but let us just explore why this is a very poor bet for convincing an atheist.

According to the post, the Christian believe in God and the afterlife. The atheist don't. Now, there are just two and only two possibility: (A)There is a God and an afterlife and (B)there is NO God and an afterlife. Really? Only 2 possibilities? 

Let's look at his two senarios.

Senario #1- there is NO God and an afterlife. Does the Christian loses nothing?

Let say for more than 30 years, the good Christian attended his church diligently every Sunday for 2 hours (not including travel time), and giving his salary's 10% for his weekly church tithes to pay the Pastor's salary and to buy the church new jet plane tax free - includes the Pastor's daily expenses for his multi-million mansion and holiday cruise travel. He also have Bible studies every Wednesday evening and weekly church donations. Then he dies. Just imagine all those wasted time and money he could have saved and used for a better and tangible purpose for himself and his family. 

Senario #2 - Now what if there's a God and an afterlife? 

Did the Christian won the gamble? 

What if he is a members of a "false church?" 

The Christian seems to forget that there are so many Christian denominations (Roman Catholic, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day saints, , Iglesia Ni Cristo, Episcopalian, Evangelical (Born-Again) Christians, Ang Dating Daan, etc.) and they are all accusing each other as being a false church. As Jesus said, not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom in heaven (Matthew 7:21).  Now imagine what will happen to this Christian if he was attending the "wrong Christian church?"

Then, there are those other religions like Judaism and Islam. According to Islam for example, Christians will be send to hell for worshiping Jesus as Son of God. 

I guess the Christian here just made a very bad bet and LOSES BIG TIME! 

This only proves that Homer Simpson is wiser compare to an average Christian who still uses Pascal's Wager. It is considered a very useless argument because gambling is not always a good, sure bet.

Until next time.