Belief in spirit seems marginal or nearly absent in contemporary philosophy and wider academia. The lack of discussion on spirits may lead one to think that belief in spirits is hopelessly irrational. In this post, I argue otherwise.
Let Egalitarian Universalism (EU) be the doctrine that God exists and gives everyone infinite happiness, and that the quantity of this happiness is the same for everyone. The traditional formulation of Pascal’s Wager obviously does not work in the case of the God of EU.
Ed Gracely in Analysis (1988) presented an instructive problem about wagering on heaven and hell. It tells us something interesting about Pascal’s Wager. Suppose you find yourself in hell and Satan himself has pity on you. He offers you this game of chance.
I propose a way of trusting (accepting, relying on, being committed to, having confidence in) theism in an intellectually responsible manner. I do not hold that...
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