Otter

It's a failed theory to begin with!

What if the supposed penalty for guessing the wrong religion is not an issue as a result of the general lenience of whatever judge of the correct religion? Or if the differences between many of the religions are not distinct enough for even whatever judge to distinguish whether someone is even following a correct religion or an infinitesimally similar doctrine?

@HL That's not really an error. The standard Pascalian wager takes that into account. The possibility of being wrong is the point of the wager.

@HXD It's not a theory. It's a probability theorem weighing the possible results of choosing one belief or another.

@GG The issue with that criticism is that all it does is call for a revised wager that takes those possibilities into account. It doesn't do away with the point of the wager.