"How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing -- in fact, he has been happier in life than his unbelieving friends. If; however, there is a God and a heaven and hell, then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends will have lost everything in hell!"
The preceding quote was made by Blaise Pascal (1623-1662). Mr. Pascal was one of the greatest early philosophers and mathematicians and is consider the father of science of hydrostatics and one of the founders of hydrodynamics. In mathematics, he laid the foundation for the modern treatment of conic sections, as well as differential calculus and the mathematical theory of probability. He was also a major contributor to the creation of the barometer! He was a deeply spiritual man, a leader of the sect known as the Jansenists, a Calvinistic quasi-Protestant group with the Roman Catholic Church.
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