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Course: Wireless Philosophy > Unit 2
Lesson 6: Religion- Religion: Cosmological Argument, Part 1
- Religion: Cosmological Argument, Part 2
- Religion: Classical Theism, Part 1 (Two Conceptions of God)
- Religion: Classical Theism, Part 2 (In Favor of Classical Theism)
- Religion: Classical Theism, Part 3 (God's Omnipotence)
- Religion: Classical Theism, Part 4 (God's Omniscience)
- Religion: Classical Theism, Part 5 (God’s Goodness and Justice)
- Religion: Classical Theism, Part 6 (Evil and Goodness in the World)
- Religion: Classical Theism, Part 7 (Atheistic Arguments from Evil)
- Religion: Pascal's Wager
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Religion: Pascal's Wager
In this Wireless Philosophy video, Susanna Rinard (Harvard University) explains Pascal's Wager, Blaise Pascal's famous argument for belief in God. Lifting an approach from the gambling hall, Pascal argued that, given the odds and the potential payoff, belief in God is a really good deal. Even if the chance that God exists is low, rationality, he claimed, compels us to wager for God.
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What if your belief in the god you think is the right one causes you to want to convert or harm or kill others who believe in a different god or no god at all? Who is that a good deal for, the individual believer, the others, or society?(3 votes)
That is bad on everyone as the killer who believes in their God can kill people thinking they are doing good when they are not.(3 votes)