Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
Blaise Pascal was the founder of the branch of mathematics known as probability theory. He was also religious. He argued that "a rational person should live their life as if God exists. If God does not actually exist such a person will have only finite losses, some pleasures, luxuries. Whereas, if He does exist, they stand to receive infinite gains, Heaven, and avoid infinite losses, Hell."
It's better to be wrong (to think there is a God) and alive than right (to think there is no God) and dead.