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In contrast to Pascal’s Wager Triangle, Pascal’s Triangle Wager argues that maybe God wants you to draw a triangle of numbers where each one is the sum of the two numbers above it, so you probably should, just in case.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    You’re ignoring 200,000 years of human history. The guys who wrote the Hebrew religious texts didn’t start from nothing.

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      5 months ago

      I was filing that under ‘mystical fluff’, but it certainly shapes the stories and how they were told.

      • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        All Religion has its origin in shamanism. That then led to polytheism which then led to monotheism. What all those have in common is that people made it up as they went along.

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            Catholics also have patron saints for nearly everything from infants to ice skaters that they pray to but that are totally not gods because there is only one god. I mean, yeah, their second most important prayer is directed at the Virgin Mary, but that doesn’t mean they worship her or anything.

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            5 months ago

            Afaik, christians don’t see the devil as a god, but as one of god’s minions tasked with temping the flock or having them prove their faith or some shit.