Hello,
Many know that it is more or less a 50/50 chance that God exists. The tough thing is that it cannot be proved or disproved. They figure if they are wrong and there is no life or awareness on the other side, then when they die they will never know about all the fun they mist, living life to the fullest in a more hedonistic fashion. On the other hand, it could be true and if you hedged your bet wrong, look out!
I think this is called Pascal's wager. As an analogy there are two executive jets sitting in Las Vegas.
You choose one of the two and will be paid 50 million dollars to fly to New York. The only catch is that one of the jets will have a barometrically calibrated bomb set to go off at 30,000 feet. Will you take a 50/50 for that risk? I see many people are in that mind set with respect to religious beliefs.
Cheers,
Michael Kelly