 However, it is unclear whether Golding’s version of the “Wager” argument is ultimately more successful than Pascal’s. The problem is that the EVP requires a single index of value in accordance with which gambles can be compared, whereas Golding’s contention that the value of the good relationship with God is different in kind from other values seems to suggest the incommensurability of two different indices. Thus, although the argument purports to show that religious theism is a more rational choice, it seems ultimately to hinge not on an objective comparison of two commensurable quantities but on a preference for goods of a certain type. It might well be the case that certain goods are preferable to others, even though there is no single scale of value by means of which to rank them, but showing this would seem to require a different sort of argument than the one Golding presents. In other words, Golding’s quantitative argument in favor of the religious life over the non-religious life seems to be undercut by his insistence that the outcomes being compared are qualitatively different.