To Atheists/Agnostics/Non-Theists... How do you respond to Pascal's Wager?

The "theist's" point of view would be that anyone who beleives and worships somthing or someone they cannot completey prove to exist,will name their God as the direct cause of any event that occurs that they cannot completely explain. Until science proved the "water cycle", pepole of faith beleived rain events to be controlled by god,and natural disasters to be the result of gods' anger or wrath, but only because they couldnt explain otherwise, then when we learned about percipitation and climates,cold and warm fronts etc. god was then denounced as the direct cause. Miracles( or un-explainable events) don't prove much of anything except that our imaginations are free to roam,until a true understanding of the event is reached, which somtimes is never reached because when most of us cant explain an event weve experienced, its automatically deemed as work of god and never givin a chance to be speculated upon.

God in general is just used as a fill for the things we don't yet understand, instead of just admitting "we don't know"."Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." Voltaire.

Miracles can also be normal or natural events with extraordinary timing. As for the objection you provided, we have to take a look at the world's religions very closely to assess if this is so. Most of the world's religions are founded in myths and legends, for instance: Buddhism's story of Siddh?

Rtha Gautama's visions, which led him into a life of asceticism, Hinduism's stories of Shiva and the like, and the many indigenous hunter/agricultural religions. I am ultimately reminded of Houston Smith who, writing of Christianity, writes that the religion is inherently a historical religion in that it is not based on "abstract principles, but on concrete events, actual historical happenings" (Smith, Houston. The World's Religions.

New York: HarperCollins, 1991.). What separates Christ's church and the stories which are recorded is just that. We are not simply accepting abstract principles, but actual historical events.

I hope this helps and if you need anything else, please email me at your convenience.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.