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Pascal's Wager is usually presented online as an argument for God's existence - and it's just as quickly debunked.
But these debunkings often happen because people aren't informed about the context surrounding the wager. Blaise Pascal himself never intended the wager to be a proof of anything. He believed God could not be understood rationally and therefore that an argument that hinges upon reason (such as the wager) can never lead to true faith.
So when people say "if you only believe in God for a heavenly reward, that's not real faith" they are correct. But Pascal never claimed that it would anyway.
The other common counter argument is that there are thousands of possible religions. So the odds of the wager don't work out in your favor. Pascal forgot that other religions exist! Except he didn't - a considerable part of the Pensées (the book in which the wager appears) is dedicated to Pascal discussing why he thinks Christianity is the one true faith. You can disagree with his reasons for thinking so, but to claim that the wager itself doesn't work because of it, purposefully ignores the wider context of the book and presents Pascal as a naive shallow thinker who somehow overlooked the existence of other religions in a book about faith.
Ultimately, the wager is a pensée, a thought. A thought experiment meant to get you started on your religious journey. At least that's what Pascal intended. He laments that people don't think about the fate of their immortal soul at all, they just numbly go through life. But what is at stake in the afterlife, by necessity pales everything and anything that could ever happen in your earthly, finite, life.
Pascal's message is: start thinking about it. And the wager is meant to be a wake-up call for that.
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