Christians who use Pascal's Wager?

Can't believe christians would think that their god is stupid enough they can't see through their act. lulz

there goes FC Morganie's junk answers again.

Dear, let me clear it up for you. Existentialism is not about 'what makes you happy'. It is about what meaning you personally can find in the pointlessness of life vs those that have been found for you and delivered with a pretty bow on top. This can and often does include 'higher' purposes entirely un-theistically related or communicated.

You poor thing. Learned all those canned anti-existentialist arguments at BYU no doubt.

There is only one thing that needs to be understood about Pascal's Wager. It was made at a time when it was still unacceptable to reject theism.

The wager is pretty clear cut, it says to believe to escape hell. It's fake, and a god who knows everything should see thru your disguise.

That has nothing to do with the Wager, point one, and, two, as any Catholic Catechism will show you, imperfect contrition is totally acceptable to God. For intentionally distorting this I would say that you risk Hell yourself. BAAAAMM!!!

Pascal's wager was an argument addressed at existentialists and should be understood in that philosophical context.

Hopefully you can understand that.

Very few people understand Pascal's existentialist argument. They simplify it to "If there is no God, and you bet there is, you've lost so little compared to if there is a God, and you wager there isn't you've lost everything."

But actually he was making an argument within the framework of existentialist thought which was prevalent in philosophy at the time.

What he was saying was, let's say you are an existentialist and you believe basically "whatever makes you happy is right" - then let's say you see a Christian. You have no ground to stand on to say that Christian is wrong, since that Christian is acting in accordance to what he believes to be true meaning and that is making him happy. According to your own existentialist philosophy Christianity is just as valid as any other way of life.

So existentialism itself offers you no reason to reject Christianity. Whereas Christianity offers you a reason to reject existentialism since Christianity teaches that there is more to life than what makes us happy.

It is within that framework that you can apply his principles of decision theory knowing that you have no way of rejecting Christianity on the basis of existentialism.

Mayke for best answer of the entire week!