The second most common refutation is an “argument from inauthentic
belief,” which states that if god exists he will see through our false belief if
we are not genuinely convinced of his existence, basically refuting the
premise that we can freely choose to believe.
The last of the major rebuttals, though less well known, is the “argument of
assumptions.” This asserts Pascal assumed a false dichotomy; god exists or
doesn’t exist. There are actually innumerable possibilities such as god
doesn’t exist, god exists and is malevolent, or god exists and is benevolent.
Without going into the math here, which results from only adding two of
god’s possible natures to the equation, choosing no belief in god is
statistically the best decision when applyin g decision theory to these three
possibilities.
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