BLAISE PASCAL : 'BELIEF IN GOD IS A PERSONAL CHOICE'
Contrary to many of his contemporaries Blaise Pascal has believed that there was no way to prove the existence of god. He was unable to find any proof of the existence of god when he discussed the matter with a non-believer.
This was the first move towards reason in the history of monotheism. No one dared until that day to question the existence of god.
Pascal was the first person to announce that the belief in god was a matter of personal choice. Pascal has insisted that faith should be a reasonable acceptance resting on common sense. Proving the existence of god was impossible, but rejecting god's existence with reason is also impossible.
Neither the never-ending debate of hundreds of years nor reason or accepting what the tradition has taught was successful in leading mankind over the 'gulf' to the faraway god.
