Copied and pasted: Pascal's Wager is specious reasoning at its best. It only makes sense if there is a reasonable chance that god actually exists. It's not anywhere close to 50/50. The bible is so full of contradictions, historical errors, terrible advice, despicable morals and outright impossibilities that it's laughable. You have read it, right? I will use Pascal's wager to illustrate another scenario... You can choose to believe a book that says that Martians are coming back to recolonize Earth in 2050, and Martians may or may not come and recolonize Earth in 2050. Ok... 4 possibilities. 1) You believe and they come. Great. You'll make friends with them because you were loyal. 2) You believe and they don't come. You've wasted your entire life worshipping and following the insane dogma of something that wasn't even real! 3) You don't believe and they don't come. Who cares. 4) You don't believe and they do come. I guess you're a slave forever! Oh no! I don't want to be a slave to Martians! I guess I'd better start believing that Martians are coming in 2050 and live my life accordinly just to hedge my bets, right? Or... Wait... I'm not that gullible. Possibility 2 actually REALLY sucks, and without the slightest bit of evidence for Martians, I'm going to put the whole ridiculous concept where it belongs... Also Pascal's Wager is rational reasoning. If you choose to be a Christian solely to hedge your bet on whether or not God exists you're a moron. And wouldn't an omniscient being know that you were only following his faith on the off chance he exists? And why should I have to believe in the first place? If I lead a good life helping people and being moral and am denied access to heaven because I didn't believe in his existence while a Child murder/rapist gets in because he does then that just makes God an asshole. If I have two employees: one who is does job well and is good with customers, but doesn't like me and one who sucks up to me constantly but steals and yells at customers, whom should I keep and whom should I cast out. If you are basing your faith on rational beliefs you are a fool. And you either lying to yourself or delusional.

But also there are so many religions, to the point alien life exists there are probably an infinite number or religions that makes the chance your religion is correct 0 and the chance of not believing infinitely -1 better. I understand the maths is a bit off, but illustrates my point.