Chapter 21 – Pascal’s Wager
When the facts don’t support the faith, and all arguments have been dispelled, when a person in 99% sure there is no God, there is still one last reason people want to believe. The 1% chance that hell is real. A hell where people suffer for eternity is too much of a terror, even if it is a remote chance, to risk being wrong. To cover eternity’s down-side, if all we have to do is an hour of church on Sundays and a token adherence to some creed, we have nothing to lose and everything to gain. It shouldn’t surprise us that this train of thought is named after a mathematician/philosopher, Blaise Pascal. The return on investment is enormous. Think of how long eternity is. A trillion years is a blink of an eye. Eternal bliss just for believing in God. Now that is a great deal! All of humanity is silly for not taking this bet.
This is only a short summary of this topic. To find out more, please get Why Adam and Eve Created God.
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