{"id":2457,"date":"2009-08-10T18:57:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T02:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2009-08-10T19:06:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T03:06:55","slug":"pascals-wager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/pascals-wager\/","title":{"rendered":"Pascal&#8217;s Wager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piling one irrationality onto another, the town fathers in the Sicilian town of Ficarra have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/2009\/08\/03\/Italian-town-invests-in-lottery-tickets\/UPI-61851249319318\/\">collectively invested <\/a>in Italy\u2019s $165 million lottery:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221;We chose numbers which were connected with the town&#8217;s patron saint, the Virgin Mary of the Assumption,&#8221; Mayor Basilio Ridolfo said. &#8220;It is our hope that, with her blessing, we will hit the jackpot.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Virgin Mary did not come through for last week\u2019s drawing\u2014but neither did any other saints.\u00a0 Other towns are reportedly following Ficarra\u2019s lead, which could lead to some heavenly protocol issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why is it considered more advanced to ask for a windfall through prayer,\u00a0 rather than through a quid pro quo like a nice burnt offering?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piling one irrationality onto another, the town fathers in the Sicilian town of Ficarra have collectively invested in Italy\u2019s $165 million lottery: &#8221;We chose numbers which were connected with the town&#8217;s patron saint, the Virgin Mary of the Assumption,&#8221; Mayor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/pascals-wager\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[305,182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}