"Because we can neither prove nor disprove a (Christian) god, we might as well believe in him to help avoid the threat of hell"
Basically the philosophy that you're better safe than sorry as far as religion goes.
Who came up with this theory? What is the theory called? I know it's a man's name, but I just can't remember.
2007-12-23 19:57:15 · 7 answers · asked by THUB 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Blaise Pascal
It is called Pascal's wager. It was never meant as a religious proof. only as a decision strategy. Pascal presents it as an agnostic question. Undecidable.
Please no more you are killing my liver.
Merry Merry Ho Ho Hic.
2007-12-23 20:06:31 · answer #1 · answered by Buke 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Blaise Pascal, French Philospher and Mathematicien.
The wager is called Pascal's Wager.
He was a Jasenist.
2007-12-24 04:07:44 · answer #2 · answered by Indy Indy Indy!!!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the problem, believing in God's existence and putting your faith in that is as useful as believing in cops and still deal drugs and rob banks.
so what really matters? live a good life, forgive everyone, treat everyone as family. yes even the homless and poor, the africans and everyone in need.
do that and you will do better than joining the club of God believers who dont have any difference than before they accepted it.
A judge won't give you a sentence based on your beliefs of his existence..
how do you live your life?
how do you spend your money?
for yourself? or for others?
thats really what most unbelievers avoid,because they know full well that admitting God exists means that they know they will get judged for their selfishness and greed, for their attitudes and their distance from the poor. for their unforgiveness and injustice, their lust, their hatred and vanity.
theres plenty more to list but you don't need a list of the bad things that need not to be done.
love others.. thats as simple as it can get.
2007-12-24 04:21:20 · answer #3 · answered by bagsy84 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blaise Pascal, known as Pascal's Wager and it's not philosophy, it's hedging your bets for the wrong reasons.
2007-12-24 04:00:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Calvinist
2007-12-24 04:04:31 · answer #5 · answered by Inou 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"But because the threat of hell cannot be substantiated by any known source to be infinite or even as described, wasting 1/7 of ones life attending church may not be as attractive a proposition as previously thought..."
--The Anti-Pascal Wager
2007-12-24 04:03:52 · answer #6 · answered by special-chemical-x 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Drink to link
2007-12-24 04:01:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋