Why do Christians obsess on some guy named Jesus?

Why do Christians like the man so much?

cause he found out that all corner points of an right angled triangle are on a circle and we dig science?

Never heard of him.

Pascal was one of the greatest mathematicians of the seventeenth century.

Then he got religion; and became an idiot overnight.

We remember him because he is such a fine example of what religion can do for you.

We don’t. It’s foolish religious believers who are so fond of him.

He’s the prime example of christian logic

I’m not sure I do like him that much…

btw, obsess ‘on’ really?
Is that american usage? I’d say obsess about…or are obsessed with – seems severely grammatically incorrect to me. I mean is that common or is it just your dialect?

Actually, its the theists who frequently brandish his silly Wager. We just point out the flaws each time.

Are you sure you want to ask this question? If it’s wrong to ask, then you have sinned. If it was right to refrain from posing this question (as I do), then you have done the right thing and can be happy with that. Wouldn’t it be better to simply not ask?

(…eh, attempted to make a joke about Pascal’s Wager. Either everyone TDed immediately without getting that, or I’m not as funny as I thought…both are possibilities, lol)

We know that no gods or devils exist outside of a scared brainwashed mind . Who put that pascal into your mind ? I’ll bet it wasn’t an atheist .

Actually, it is the theists that is obsessed with the flawed logic of Pascal.

We don’t. Theists obsess on him because they think "Pascal’s wager" is a good argument why you should believe in god.

Besides being a great mathematician, he was the first to be recorded as arguing for believing in God by using the terms of a wager. Basically he stated that if you bet on God you had nothing to loose but if you bet against (did not believe/convert) and god was real then you lost everything. This is called "Pascal’s Wager" and have been "debunked" for a variety of reasons.

On R&S believers will often come up with some form of Pascal’s Wager and think that it is an original thought while not realize that it is relatively well known concept, that has throughly been trashed in many ways.

Edit:
Just from the Christian standpoint, Pascal’s wager does not work because they also claim God is all knowing and judges what is in man’s heart. The wager ignores that god would know that a person believed/converted out of fear or because of the payoff.

Actually, he’s an example of how delusions about magical gods can lead even otherwise rational people to do and say very stupid things.

We keep hoping the believers will notice the resemblance to themselves…

Peace.

Because of a misunderstanding of "Pascal’s Wager". Pascal was a mathematician who had a provound religious conversion as an adult. He even believed he witnessed a miracle when a thorn supposedly from the Crown of Thorns healed his niece.

He was also a philosopher and writer. He wrote Pascals Wager in which he argued that without proof of God a person should bet that God exists because you have everything to gain and nothing to lose. To many that seems a insincere form of belief and they assume all Christians are doing that without realizing it.

Actually the wager was a philosophical exercise in the new areas of probability and pragmatism. Some say it’s the beginning of existentialism. Thought experiments are common in science and philosophy. Plato’s cave, Einstein chasing a light beam, Shrodinger’s cat are examples. Pascal was devout to his dying day. Psalm 119:16: "I will not forget thy word. Amen." was found sewn into his coat after his death.