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en-wikipedia-org-911		Pascal's wager - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	7807	1063	71	Pascal's wager was based on the idea of the Christian God, though similar arguments have occurred in other religious traditions. Voltaire's critique concerns not the nature of the Pascalian wager as proof of God's existence, but the contention that the very belief Pascal tried to promote is not convincing. Nevertheless, Pascal concludes that the religion founded by Mohammed can on several counts be shown to be devoid of divine authority, and that therefore, as a path to the knowledge of God, it is as much a dead end as paganism.[29] Judaism, in view of its close links to Christianity, he deals with elsewhere.[30] What such critics are objecting to is Pascal's subsequent advice to an unbeliever who, having concluded that the only rational way to wager is in favor of God's existence, points out, reasonably enough, that this by no means makes him a believer. "Pascal's Wager about God". Pascal's Wager: Pragmatic Arguments and Belief in God. Oxford University Press, 2007.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-911.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-911.txt