Rambling Pascals' Wager

I love teaching and one of the reason is we all like to flaunt our opinions, however if you are careful you can see that there are many times you end up saying things which you have cursorily thought about and then your student comes up and say that it was a good idea and then you go back to see why was it so interesting. I remember mentioning Pascal in my class while introducing Pascal's triangle. A brief comment on his work on making a mechanical calculator. His contribution to math and religion. I even mentioned Pascal's wager and why it doesn't even amount to anything and then one of my student tells me that he did checked out Pascal's wager and found it fascinating. I read pascal's wager in Poulos book called irreligion and its one argument that many people would like to foist on you. They will tell you that how benevolent their god is and then how much he likes to punish people who won't believe in him. Now if you observe many of these people they don't really believe in what they say because their actions most of the time belie their belief and on one side when they say omnipotent god and on other side they have no compunction in fooling their on creator. Anyway I think I am digressing.
The pascal wager is "If god exists and you believe in god then you will go to heaven if god doesn't exist and you believe in god you have nothing to loose but if you don't believe in god and he exists then you are going to hell and you have everything to loose". I did a quick search on internet and ended up with this argument which has been my guiding philosophy when I made peace with the god.
"It is better to live your life as if there are no Gods, and try to make the world a better place for your being in it. If there is no God, you have lost nothing and will be remembered fondly by those you left behind. If there is a benevolent God, He will judge you on your merits and not just on whether or not you believed in Him."