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Pascal's Wager Without Purple Pixies - by Amos Wollen

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Christianity is true. Unfortunately, it’s the 4th century BCE, and the triune God hasn’t taken on flesh and dwelt among us. Your village has a religious tradition with a good deal of spiritual depth, but, in certain places, your nonsense detector is tingling: they believe in an omnipotent God they call Gashum, but also that rocks are full of purple pixies whose mathematical errors are responsible for earthquakes; every morning, Gashumites pray: “O Gashum! Teach me mathematics, that I may not be like those pixies in rocks, who are assuredly not a spiritual metaphor, who literally cause major…

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