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Western Centric Bias, Pascal's Wager, and Muslim "Freedom"

An ignorant 19-year-old from a farming community, I found Pascal's Wager reasonable.  "Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should wager as though God exists, because so living has everything to gain, and nothing to lose."If Christians are wrong (because there is no God) but you live "morally," then when the lights go out, they stay out.  It's not as if living a moral life will lead you to unhappiness.  Everyone wants to be a polygamist, but nobody wants to get herpes.  Living "morally" is usually, at worst, a wash.On the other hand, if you bet that there is no God but are wrong, you will burn in Hell for eternity...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on June 29, 2009 (boomark / email).