h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"Timothy, you are affirming homosexuality to children based on your assumption that your understanding of Scripture is correct, and if it’s not, your facilitating their eternal suffering and separation from God. Eternity is a very long time."

-- An anti-gay activist speaking to Timothy Kincaid.

"Why not inflict a little torture on the Jew today in order to save him from an eternity in hellfire? This life is short and eternity is long; the Jew will thank us for torturing him once he is saved."

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And, not quite a parallel, but with some similar logic:

# Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that god is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing.
# Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. (...) There is here an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss, and what you stake is finite. And so our proposition is of infinite force, when there is the finite to stake in a game where there are equal risks of gain and of loss, and the infinite to gain.

A517646.

TRiG.