Wager

Pascal's Wager is a fundamentally Christian argument -- that you'll burn in hell if you don't believe, so you might as well believe.

A Kuranian Take on the Religious Gender Gap, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Pascal's Wager is a lottery ticket paid for with your heart and giving you an infinitessimal chance of winning ... what?

THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART TWO Hal Duncan 2007

The Wager is an appallingly bad argument that should take about two sentences to dispense with, and the author still blows it: Once you accept the posit of a lottery with infinite expected value, the size of the finite stake is irrelevant.

What Sort of God Would Allow This? 2007

Of course, that's what most believers would argue, I suspect -- that Pascal's Wager is not at all how God wants us to approach the question.

THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART TWO Hal Duncan 2007

You understand little about me if you think being somebody bought into Pascals Wager is some kind of entrée into my head.

Butt out « BuzzMachine 2005

While I agree that the way Pascal’s Wager is usually phrased is a lousy argument for believing in God, I might have to partially defend Pascal here.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Birth Defects as God’s Punishment for Abortion 2010

The Atheist’s Wager is the atheistic equivalent of Pascal’s Wager.

mjh's blog — 2007 — February 2007

The only thing that needs to be said about the Wager is that once you’ve discarded consideration of the probabilities — that’s why the payoff has to be infinite, and the only way the Wager works — then it works for everything.

What Sort of God Would Allow This? 2007

Even better than earning CP, is the ability to win them off other people in a new type of competition called Wager Matches.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

Assemblymember Catherine Nolan recalls Wager's comments during her first campaign for her 37th Assembly District seat.

Queens Gazette 2010