Pascal says it would be better to believe in God and reap maximum benefits like heaven, go to hell for not believing, or if there is no God, you have lost nothing. He says that your inability to believe is the thing that makes you not believe in his bet or in God, so you should just assimilate and slowly start believing. I find it silly because it's set up as if we know there's something out there and that we have a choice. If you were to believe in God through this bet, would your faith be genuine simply by wishing it, most likely not. You have to question the bet when you take into consideration how many deities there are and which one would be right. Using this theory we would expand its matrix many times. Then there's also the fact that your justification for choosing some beliefs over others is irrational when they are as likely as possible in the context.
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