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It's a form of Pascal's Wager:
If you do not believe in god and on death god *does not *exist - then nothing happens.
If you do not believe in god and on death god does exist - then you are punished.
If you do believe in god and on death god *does not *exist - then nothing happens.
If you do believe in god and on death god does exist - then you are rewarded.
The conclusion that is meant to be drawn from this is that it is always better to believe in god as your outcome will always be either nothing (you are simply dead) or reward - whereas non-belief will offer only the options of nothing (you are simply dead) or punishment.
Of course, as an argument for belief it is laughably flawed and can be picked apart fairly quickly by child, it's a kind of fallacy of exhaustive hypotheses or a false dilemma, it's baffling to see it still used these days, but it is surprisingly common.