Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Believe in God, I mean, what have you got to lose, right?

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catherg Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And today I want to talk about Pascal's Wager.

So you've probably heard of Pascal's Wager before.

I remember the first time I came across it was when I was reading Peter Craved and Ronald

to Shelley's handbook of Christian apologetics.

In chapter two, I think it's chapter two, it's an early chapter on in the book.

It has 20 arguments for the existence of God.

And number 20, they say, well, this isn't really an argument, but we're going to put it

in here anyways.

And it's Pascal's Wager.

So if you haven't heard of it before, Pascal's Wager isn't necessarily an argument for

the existence of God.

It's more of a pragmatic argument for belief in the existence of God.

But even if arguments for the existence of God don't convince you, you should just

will to believe that God exists out of a kind of prudential judgment or pragmatically,

it makes the most sense to do that.

So that's Pascal's Wager.

If you go to YouTube, you'll find all kinds of videos from atheists criticizing Pascal's

Wager.

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