Can Pascal’s rationality rescue the pandemic vaccine?

Blue Labyrinths (2021)
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How do you convine someone to take the coronavirus vaccine? This essay argues that we an do so by presenting to them a reasoned argument from theology, namely, Pascal's wager.

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