  In contrast therefore with many of his contemporaries in France, such as Descartes or Malebranche, Pascal also rejected the suggestion that one could prove the existence of God by rational arguments. “The metaphysical proofs … have little value” (Fragment 179: II, 605). A fortiori, he rejected the view adopted by Malebranche, that we have no basis for believing the alleged content of revelation unless we have a prior proof that there exists a God who is capable of communicating with us. For Pascal, reason was completely inadequate to the task of relating to a transcendent divinity, and the only way to God was by ‘faith’.