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Pascal's Wager Has More Benefit Than Believing In God

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Pascal’s wager states that believing in God will either lead to infinite gain or finite loss while disbelief leads to infinite loss and finite gain depending on where God exists or not. It is not a way of proving if God exists but to say that believing in God has more benefits than disbelief in God. I don’t believe that the it is that simple with many different factors affecting the gain and loss.

The wager itself is made with the idea of the christian God but there are so many religions out there with different beliefs and even different amounts of gods. Since we know nothing about God/s we do not know how God would react to people of different religions. There are different forms of Pascal's wager but none have really accommodated for the

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