Consider this: If you think as an Atheist does, you have but two outcomes when you die, because we ALL die, including you: Scenario 1: When you die, you will lose your consciousness. This also implies that everything you ever did is meaningless, and you will never see any of your friends, family, loved ones, pets, etc. ever again. Can you even fathom not having a consciousness? Doesn't feel good to think about that, does it. Surely this is a type of hell. Scenario 2: When you die, there IS an afterlife, and you just spent your earthly existence denying God. Another hell. OR... you could be optimistic, and believe that there IS a God, and that God set up this world in His infinite wisdom to test us and see what we would do out of His presence. This means that you will be together with your family in heaven, and will be able to enjoy a world far better than this one we live in now and everything you did had meaning. On one hand, you have only one of two hells and nothing to gain. On the other, you have everything to gain and nothing to lose. The things you can gain by belief include (but are certainly not limited to): Peace, joy, happiness, afterlife, etc... SO. Which of these two options is undeniably better? I think we all know the answer.