Pascal's Wager

Pascal's Wager is the worst kind of Moral Cowardice.

I treasure this remark. Try as I can, I have been unable to find a source for it on the web. I thought it was Russell, but my friend Hilary says it sounds as if it could be Nietzsche. It does indeed. But then it could be anyone with an ounce of integrity really, couldn't it? If you know who it is, please write and tell me.

Actually, it occurs to me that it could be one of the existentialists, beco's Pascal's Wager is probably the perfect example of Bad Faith.

While we're about it, it's not only cowardly and wicked (and unforgivably frivolous) it must surely also be pointless. No God worth believing in would stand for this kind of nonsense for the twinkling of an eye, as they say in the Old Testament; you can't fool the likes of him: he would know you were taking the piss.

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