In the movie Life of Pi, the protagonist, Pi himself is faced with challenges that can be the basis of nightmares for many people. Pi must conquer countless battles including a shipwreck, the death of his family and his way of life being destroyed. He faces many obstacles but through it all remains faithful to God. Pi identifies himself as a Hindu Christian after spending his childhood in India where he practiced Hinduism and later in his teen years when he stumbled into a Christian church where he found Jesus. His theism helps give him strength to keep on fighting through the challenges he faced at sea. Pi vows that God exists because he believes that through the hardships he endured God protected and kept him safe even if God allowed him…show more content… The teleological and cosmological arguments are based on experiences just as Pi’s argument for the existence of God is based on his experiences throughout his time at sea. Pi’s argument also shares more similarities with the ontological argument. The ontological argument was developed by St. Anslem who argued that God is that which nothing greater can be conceived. The argument that Pi makes complements this as he believes God is his protector and provider through all his life’s hardships. St. Anslem and Pi would both argue that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent although the ontological argument is not based on experiences like Pi’s argument. The final argument that can be compared to Pi’s is the pragmatic argument. This argument relates strongly to Pi’s argument in the way that it is better to believe in God in case God is real instead of feeling the consequences of not believing. Pi would agree with this argument because when telling the story of his time at sea to the men from the insurance company, we learn that the story of Pi and the tiger is not the truth rather Pi was in the lifeboat with a murderous cook instead. Pi tells the story with the tiger to the men the first time but they ask him to tell a story that people can believe so that is when he tells the true story of the cook instead. This relates to the
