Pascal's Wager is an argument in apologetic philosophy which was devised by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662). It posits that humans all bet with their lives either that God exists or does not exist. Given the possibility that God actually does exist and assuming an infinite gain or loss associated with belief or unbelief in said God (as represented by an eternity in heaven or hell), a rational person should live as though God exists and seek to believe in God. If God does not actually exist, such a person will have only a finite loss (some pleasures, luxury, etc.). The wager is flawed in the sense that it assumes only one diety. To date we have recorded some 2,800 dieties. Which one is right? Or are they all wrong!

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