Doing Good, Doing Right

There’s this suggestion called Pascal’s Wager is a suggestion posed by Blaise Pascal that since the existence of God cannot be proved, then you can only wager on certain things being true and the consequences:

  • If you believe in God, and God does exist, you go to heaven.
  • If you believe in God, and God does not exist, you don’t lose anything.
  • If you don’t believe in God, and God does exist, you go to hell.
  • If you don’t believe in God, and God does not exist, you don’t lose anything.

Obviously here, believing in God is the way to go.

But wait, there’s more. If you believe in God, then you likely live a good life and since good begets good, you actually gain. If you don’t believe in God, and you lead an evil life and since evil begets evil, you actually lose.

So whatever your beliefs, whatever everyone else is doing on around you, doing what is good, doing what is right, is the only thing to do.