Pascals Wager

Critique on Pascal's Wager

Pascals Wager relies on many assumptions that are not necessarily true, by proving the falsehood of these assumptions the Wager falls apart. First the wager assumes that God cannot tell the difference between true faith and fained faith. Second is that doesn't care if one's willingness to believe is based purely in self interest. Third, if there is a possibility for God to exist there is an equal possibility for him to be nothing like we think. First off what exactly is Pascals Wager. Pascals Wager goes as follows. If you are incorrect in your belief in God, you lose nothing. That is assuming that death is the absolute end. Also if you correctly believe in God, you gain everything, eternal life and bliss. But if you correctly disbelieve in God, you gain nothing because you end up with death. Whereas if you Incorrectly disbelieve in God, you lose everything and live an eternity of pain. By this logic there doesn't appear to be any reason to not believe in God or at the very least fake it.So to start disproving assumptions we should start with the most glaring one. Pascals Wager assumes that God, All powerful knowing and good as he is, cannot tell whether your faith is based on true belief or because you are backing into a corner by Pascals logic. Pascal created this wager in order to try and make an argument for faith in God. But the definitive nature of the argument makes it inevitable that some people will only have belief because their is no logical reason not to. This fact hurts pascals point because if God knows all he would certainly be aware of the falsehood of these peoples faith and still not allow them into “heaven”. This is plausible because God as most Religious people see him would not reward self interest. That is the second problem for the wager, this argument is based only on a person self interest. The God that is primarily believed in is not known to be a fan of people acting on self interest. In fact