Since I am either going to be killed or going to live, why bother taking precautions?” Theologically, too, fatalism has been very influential. It was readily obvious to the church fathers (and to pagan philosophers as well) that the Greek argument for fatalism could be very easily cast in a theological form by referring to God’s foreknowledge: if God foreknows that something will happen at a certain time, then when that time arrives, the event must happen; otherwise, God’s foreknowledge could be