Eh. Think I’m with Heidegger on this one, except if I had certainty, which I certainly don’t. The trouble with me with the wager is that is elides all the ways in which you have to live as a Christian to attain eternity, which is unappealing, and removes the question altogether about how to judge whether or not the gospel is true, but instead presents me with a rational choice problem. I like Hausman’s poem the loveliest of trees because it gives voice to finitude, and am not very moved by the 34th Canto. I do think we can have truth, but truth as an expression of the choices we have to make in this life, not absolutely true, but descriptively true.
Eh. Think I’m with Heidegger on this one, except if I had certainty, which I certainly don’t. The trouble with me with the wager is that is elides all the ways in which you have to live as a Christian to attain eternity, which is unappealing, and removes the question altogether about how to judge whether or not the gospel is true, but instead presents me with a rational choice problem. I like Hausman’s poem the loveliest of trees because it gives voice to finitude, and am not very moved by the 34th Canto. I do think we can have truth, but truth as an expression of the choices we have to make in this life, not absolutely true, but descriptively true.