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Originally Posted by Livia Regina
Humans also tend to think of monsters but that doesn't make monsters any more real. My point is that just because we have an idea of something doesn't mean it exists. Interesting quote - it sounds rather like Pascal's Wager restated. I've read some of George MacDonald's works and liked them.
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Hmm...i don't see anything like Pascal's in this quote. The wager is about the fear. To me, this quote speaks to the grace. Could be the way i'm reading it, i guess. but i'd never seen that as a parallel.
the speaker isn't saying he beleives, lest he be wrong and punished hereafter. he's saying he will believe, even if he is wrong, for beleif in and of itself in the here and now is worth his life's energy.