Re: Pascal's Wager

Terry Donaghe (tdonaghe@yahoo.com)
Sun, 6 Dec 1998 07:06:33 -0800 (PST)

---"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:

> > Indeed, I personally think that it is not possible for a
> > person who honestly believes in God to be a moral person or
> > lead an effective, worthwhile life, so the cost of belief
> > is very high--the sacrifice of this life for the false hope
> > in the next.
>
> I'm sorry, but I think this statement is simply false.
> What about Martin Luther King, to name the first example to spring
to mind?
>

Shame, shame. If you mean Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., I'm afraid you're overlooking the fact that he was a communist and had several extra-marital affairs, and his doctoral thesis is littered with plagiarisms. He may have espoused "good" ideas, but I don't know if we should consider him to be a "moral" man.

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