>>15To act as though God is real and hell/heaven can mean different things to different people. How exactly does that undermine the logic of the thought experiment? You either act as though these things are not real and go to hell if they are, or you do the opposite and go to heaven if they are. It doesn't matter if you are Catholic or protestant, as long as you can apply logic you can see the wisdom in this. At no point do we discuss what it means to act as though God exists, we simply observe that belief in God is a logical necessity.
once again, the problem with the thought experiment is that it does not reflect on a myriad of different possibilities relating to God's existence or non-existence, even within a christian framework. for example, if God exists but will ultimately forgive everyone ('all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well' - as Julian of Norwich famously written), then belief or non-belief has no consequences with regards to eternal life.
of course, under the assumption of Pascal's Wager it makes sense to believe in God. but those assumption don't necessarily hold in reality. logically, implications from false antecendent is always true. you could imagine a similar wager for other religions. why are you not raiding villages, sacrificing people and dying in a batlle? Odin will reward you if he exists, after all.
You are claiming that post-modern cultural relativity somehow negates the logic of math and God, as though logic is merely an "assumption" of "old white men" and not a pure truth. This much is certain.
I never mentioned culture, relativity or white men. your're are arguing with your're are own imagination. or rather - you have hidden assumption about my motives and worldview. not surprising.