Pascal’s Wager is an argument in philosophy that was developed by the 17th-century Philosopher Blaise Pascal. The premise of the argument hinges on the difficulty of knowing whether God exists.

It was in the wake of Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) having waged war on Christianity with his work, Of Miracles (1748), that British minister Richard Price (1723-1791) was compelled to ...

To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction with which we hold it can be perilous and destructive. ~ Peter Medawar ...