“Either Christianity is true or it’s false. If you bet that it’s true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you’ve gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it’s false, you’ve lost nothing, but you’ve had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it’s false, you’ve lost nothing. But if you bet that it’s false, and it turns out to be true, you’ve lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.”
Blaise Pascal
What about an infinity of choices including: Christianity contains elements of but not the totality of The Truth?
This seems like just the binary choice. Christianity is completely true or it’s false. They came to the problem as deeply religious people and just wanted to add the weight of logic to their convictions.
How about this headline from Britain’s Daily Sun:
Humans to download their SOULS onto microchips so they can ‘live FOREVER’
PEOPLE will be able to download their “souls” onto microchips, implant it into another body and live forever, a technology expert has claimed.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/754342/science-news-microchips-live-forever-ai-immortality-richard-skellett
Seems to me that claim presupposes a number significant of assumptions. Beyond arrogance onto stupidity.
Fairly common Sci-Fi centerpiece though.
I don’t see how they could download your memories and personality onto an organic brain but in what sense would that be you? If they copied my mind and put it into another body would that mean I had two souls? It hard enough figuring out if I have one soul or not. Plus inflicting my annoying personality on untold future generations of my descendants sounds like cruel and unusual punishment. I think if we’re lucky we get one bite at the apple and that should be enough. As I get older living forever sounds less and less attractive.