He's talking about Pascal’s Wager, I believe. It goes something like this: You can either believe in God, or can believe He doesn't exist. Being agnostic is tantamount to being athiest.
If God doesn't exist, then the same thing will happen to your soul whether you believed or didn't, i.e. its alleged lack of eternal-ness comes into play and you cease to both think and be.
If God does exist and, as the Bible would have us believe, Heaven is an exclusive club for people whose beliefs can be easily bought with promises of eternal life, well, they're in for a treat. For the rest of us, it's time to get some oars, because we're crossing the Sanzu.
So, in terms of probability, it is best to believe. Or so Pascal said.
p.s. I don't understand how something being natural and/or inevitable negates it being scary.
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