Chapter 17: A Skeptic's Wager

Pascal's wager is fully laid out in this chapter. D'Souza points out that in the end, apatheists and agnostics are not safe from making a final decision. Furthermore, agnostics live like "practical atheists". Against the argument that if God provided more evidence more would believe, D'Souza cites Pascal who believed God's hiddenness keeps Him from forcing Himself on those who do not want to believe. Furthermore, Faith allows for anyone to access God. If reason alone was the appropriate way to discover God, it would make salvation aristocratic. Faith is democratic.