Pascal’s Wager is an argument in philosophy that was developed by the 17th-century Philosopher Blaise Pascal. The premise of the argument hinges on the difficulty of knowing whether God exists. Pascal ...

After his return to Catholicism, Blaise Pascal proposed a famous wager in his masterwork Pensées (Thoughts), taking a mere paragraph to do it. Since the existence of God cannot be proven, Pascal took ...

One of the most common arguments I hear against the nonreligious, humanistic lifestance is the claim that belief in God is the "safe" approach. The tenets of traditional religion may seem implausible ...