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    Challenges→Adopting belief in God via Pascal's Wager makes one complicit in an immoral divine plan.

    Condemning non-culpable persons to eternal loss of happiness is immoral.

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    There are several arguments to the effect that morality requires you to wager against God. Pascal himself appears to be aware of one such argument. He admits that if you do not believe in God, his recommended course of action “will deaden your acuteness” (This is Trotter’s translation. Pascal’s original French wording is “vous abêtira”, whose literal translation is even more startling: “will make you a beast”.) One way of putting the argument is that wagering for God may require you to corrupt y

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