Life is a gamble. We're always placing our bets. Very little is certain in this world. We live and breathe probabilities. We are constantly making rational calculations as to what we need to do, and how we should structure our lives, in order to secure the goals that we value. We are always wagering our time and energy on one strategy or another in pursuit of our own hopes and dreams. To be alive at all involves some risk.

Life is process. We are always pursuiing goals and placing our bets on what will work and what's not worth our trouble. We are engaged in that process every day. But, we are also typically engaged in avoidance behavioir concerning some of the things that really matter most. We sleepwalk through life. I believe that the deepest reality is spirituality. We can live on a physical level, and even on an intellectual level, and miss it completely. They physical is the level of the body, the intellectual is the level of the mind. But the spiritual is the level of the heart, that core capacity we all have where thought and feeling and will all come together.

If you bet on athiesm and win, then what do you win? Not much. Perhaps any sense pleasures that you indulged yoursefl in within the confines of this life that you would have avoided for moral reasons if you had been making the contrary bet. But, in the end, you wouldn't know that you won. So you won't even have the pleasure of knowing you were right.

Everyone has self interest and that's in no way an immoral or unworthy attitude.