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> Well, sort of. I'll explain... > A bit more than a year ago, I had a real serious look at Christianity (my university's Christian Union was running some sort of evangelical thing, and one of my disturbingly large number of Christian friends persuaded me to turn up to a few events), and had to think about a wide range of issues. > Pascal's Wager seemed like one of them. It's logic seemed inescapable at the time, and several of the people who had talked to me talked about it. And yet I really didn't like it at all. It seemed all wrong - you would have thought that in religion it would have been idealism, and not pragmatism, which counted for something, and yet PW rewards the pragmatist, and stamps on the one who actually cares about such things as Truth, Love and Beauty. Even the name was ugly - 'Wager' implies a gambling game. Now I've nothing against the odd game of Newmarket or Pontoon for small stakes, but it's not how I expect matters of spirituality to be dealt with. > This, along with other things, just seemed far too horrible to me. At times when some charismatic person had talked to me about some facet of the evidence for Christianity (charismatic people tend to skew your thinking for a while if you let them - it takes a while for 'normal service' to resume), things like that made me say to my self, "Hold on, this can't be right...". When I had had some time to myself to sort things out again, I could sustain my disbelief in other ways, but the 'all too horrible' factor did keep me from getting to far in... > So, in a way, PW _did_ keep me from becoming a Christian. As yet I haven't got around to studying the other major monthesistic religions, and 'natural religion' (someone come up with a better word - ie belief in God without any reference to 'revealed religion') never really seemed right to me. So, in the abscense of compelling alternatives, I remain an agnostic-atheist (ie agnostic, but taking atheism as my 'standpoint for now'). > Peter > > Could you explain this to me? How Pascal's Wager led you to not beleive in a God? > > Thanks. > > > > Matches

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