Pascal's wager

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Pascal's wager Christanon 06/18/19 (Tue) 22:23:50 398f82 No.815399

What is your opinion on Pascal's Wager and the inability to believe?

Christanon 06/18/19 (Tue) 22:38:08 521211 No.815407

>>815399

His wager is laughable, and with the many options and faiths there are vying for attention, irrelevant.

Christanon 06/18/19 (Tue) 22:54:00 0555a6 No.815412

What inability to believe?

Christanon 06/19/19 (Wed) 05:09:14 b39891 No.815467

>>815407

Yes, but its useful inasmuch as its complemented by the scholastic dictum 'fides et ratio', to help those with 'ratio' to accept 'fides', so they can atleast play the 'game'.

Christanon 06/19/19 (Wed) 05:56:59 96d9fa No.815477

>>815412

This inability to believe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager#Inability_to_believe

>>815399

I mostly agree with him. He says that coming to the rational conclusion that God exists is relatively easy, but that doesn't mean you actually fully believe it, and actions are what really build up your faith. I experienced something similar: I was a theist, but my life was a mess, and it wasn't until I started getting some order into my life that I began to fully embrace the christian faith. Religion is not to be understood in a merely rational way, you have to act it out to internalize and comprehend it. That's why a five minute prayer will often bring you closer to God than a whole afternoon of laying on your bed thinking about the meaning of existence.

Pascal's wager is usually presented as "I don't believe but I'll say I do to get to heaven :epic trollface: X^DDD", but it's instead something more complex: it says that reason is, and will always be, just not enough to truly get close to God, that you need to embrace religion and the Church (which, in the case of Pascal, was the Catholic Church).