Out of my new encyclopedia of quotations:
Pensées, no. 680. “Pascal’s Wager”:
Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate the two chances. If you win, you win everything; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that He is!Pensées, no. 894:
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction
[...] So I was out of town again last week and I didn’t get back until Sunday. As you may be able to tell, I’m not really one that enjoys traveling with computers unless completely necessary. I went to check the RSS feeds that I had left for the seven days prior and discovered a new “Atheist’s Wager” being propagated throughout the blogosphere via social news sites. This new defense of atheism was being marketed as a “clever rebuttal” to Blaise Pascal’s famous wager about the existence of God: [...]