The philosopher Pascal, a skeptic, said he would rather believe in God and be wrong than not believe and find out God existed.
He said he did not trust that his cellphone was secure, but rather, believed it was "hot".
"We are going to the beginning," he is told, or rather believes he is told, because this phrase is communicated without words.
Naming your protagonist Salinger signals a serious intent, not to mention a sort of mad bravado – particularly when you call his brother Carson (although the down-to-earth character in question would rather believe he was named for frontiersman Kit Carson than Carson McCullers).
And when we get to the final payoff - "It's still difficult to say it; Mum, Dad, I'm a werewolf" - they'd still rather believe that he's suffering from some kind of mental illness.
I'd rather believe that he didn't.
What he rather desperately believes, he said, is that "a conversation has to begin" on how Orthodox Jews — including the rabbinate — and non-Orthodox Jews can agree "to trust each other" despite the disputes.
"I guess some people would rather believe what management tells them," he said.
He did not support evolution by natural selection, rather believing in a Lamarckian inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Whom would you rather believe?
Who would we rather believe?
