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Wager on God worth making

To the editor: The writer of the letter on April 23, "Pascal's Wager on God
more like a bribe" (i.e. it is better to bet on God than it is on atheism)
should know that John von Neumann, one of the founders of game theory, and a
world renowned mathematician who worked on the Manhattan Project developing
the Atomic Bomb with Edward Teller, converted to Christianity on his deathbed
on account of Pascal's Wager.

Von Neumann stated, "I encourage you to try believing in the Christian God,
too. I myself had been an atheist for most of my life -- ever since I was four
years old and decided that religion was silly. I enjoyed reading articles by
prominent atheists and engaging in debates in which I argued against the
existence of God; I viewed religion as a byproduct of the same type of
irrational biases that lead people to believe in fortune tellers or cults.

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