Homer Simpson answers Pascal’s Wager

Suppose we’ve chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we’re just making him madder and madder! –Homer Simpson

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“And what does that have to do with Pascal?” You may ask. Read on…

The famous French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) expressed the opinion, which was to be known as “Pascal’s Wager”, that the question of whether god exists cannot be answered logically, so we can only see it as a bet, but in this bet, belief in god is a much better choice than non-belief. Pascal’s statement can be very easily explained by the following table, which shows the available

Expelled

I am going to follow toomanytribbles’ example and do my duty…

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Book: Sam Harris - Letter to a Christian Nation

Hardcover

Audiobook

Sam Harris awesome as usual. Luckily, this time the publisher of the audiobook chose a narrator whose voice is intelligent and intellectual, yet youthful, and actually sounds like Sam Harris’ own voice, unlike

Book: Sam Harris - The End of Faith

Audio CD

Hardcover

Paperback

Although this is indeed a very good book, I was very disappointed by the fact that the audio version was narrated by some mr. Brian Emerson who made the whole masterpiece sound like a nine hour long commercial for vacuum-cleaners. Seriously, there could be no greater disparity between

Book: Christopher Hitchens - God is Not Great

Hardcover

Audiobook

An excellent book full of points very well made. The audiobook is narrated by the author, which to me was both a blessing and a curse. A blessing, because obviously nobody could narrate it better than the author himself. A curse, because…

Book: Richard Dawkins - River Out of Eden

Audiobook

Paperback

Hardcover

Paperback

This book, published in 1996, could perhaps be thought of as containing the first indications of what would later become Richard Dawkins’ full blown attack on religion. It seems to me that it is, in a way, a bridge between the earlier Dawkins who was talking mostly about biology and very little about the hoax of religion,

Movie: Sunshine

I the movie “Sunshine” by Danny Boyle [IMDB] there is a scene which is impossible to comprehend unless you have some knowledge of physics. The protagonist Robert Capa (Cillian Murphy) finds himself trapped in an airlock from which he must escape at any cost. The airlock contains

What about the other ships?

Once, in one of my trips between Melos and Athens, we encountered very bad weather, and the ship was in danger of sinking. The Captain ordered that the sail be taken completely down and that part of the cargo be thrown overboard. All members of the crew were rowing, while we, the passengers, were frantically tossing water out of the ship.

One of the sailors, who happened to have heard about me, started convincing the others that they had brought the wrath of the gods upon them by accepting me on board. They were going to toss me in the sea together with the cargo, and I had to come up with something clever to say, and I had to make it quick.

Hello, World!

My main blog is in Greek, and it is mostly about Greek affairs, but I have noticed that every once in a rare while I do post something there which may be of interest to people outside of Greece.

I reckon that in these cases it is a pity to keep the posts locked in a language understandable by only a negligibly small percentage of the population of the planet, so, I started this blog with the intent of posting English translations of some of my articles.