“The immortality of the soul is something of such vital importance to us, affecting us so deeply, that one must have lost all feeling not to care about knowing the facts of the matter. All our actions and thoughts must follow such different paths, according to whether there is hope of eternal blessings or not, that the only possible way of acting with sense and judgement is to decide our course of action in the light of this point, which ought to b our ultimate objective.”

Blaise Pascal

Pascal is of course correct, even though most atheists consider themselves to be wiser and more intelligent than Pascal.