theology
Why Pascal’s Wager Is Eminently Modern
Fingers Crossed: Pascal reasoned that life is a sort of “game,” and that our faith in God, or lack-there-of, is our wager as to the ultimate nature of reality.Photograph by Albert / Flickr On the evening of November 23rd, 1654, the brilliant polymath Blaise Pascal was thrown from his horse-drawn carriage, the creatures having been […]
How the Mormons Conquered America
The success of the Mormon religion is a study in social adaptation.
The Hidden God
One man’s path to knowing less about God.