Sheldon Prays to Blaise Pascal?

My wife and I watched the first 2 episodes 11-2 and 11-9 since 'Young Sheldon" started up again. I found "Poker, faith and eggs" episode interesting. In it, his father has a heart attack and he prays to "Blaise Pascal" which is interesting.

It's part of the problem when Faith and real intellectual intelligence collide.

However, for me, in the end do you want to live in a world completely without meaning or order?

I discovered in 1985 in Bodhgaya the faith of 500,000 people there for the Kalachakra Tantra Initiation with the Dalai Lama that faith doesn't have to be based upon God to be real to people. This was a very enlightening and awakening experience to see devoted people believing in Compassion instead of God. It was likely the most civilizing experience in a real sense in my entire life.

So, faith can be in many directions and best I believe when you believe in BOTH God and Compassion in the past, present and future. And 25% of even Buddhists believe in God too.

Young Sheldon is the direction many young people go these days which takes them away from believing in God.

I myself, if I didn't need to believe in God to be alive from ages 10 to 15 likely I would be dead now without a belief in God.

So, my point of view is very practical:

If you don't believe in God or Buddha how are you going to stay alive when you believe you are dying for 1 to 5 years or more?

What's going to stop you from killing yourself directly or indirectly?

I think that is my most pressing question to all of you.

I believe Faith was invented to keep children from killing themselves when relatives or friends die and the feel they can't go on.

So, what actually happens when people don't believe in anything is often their lives end very quickly and very suddenly and that's all.

It doesn't mean it can't happen when you believe in something too. It's just more likely you will survive whatever comes if you believe in something that sustains you.