From Infidel753:
Nan’s Notebook has a post up on a question Christians sometimes pose to atheists: “What if you’re wrong?” It’s basically a reformulation of Pascal’s wager — if you live your life as an atheist and die as one, only to find God waiting to judge you in the afterlife, you’ll feel pretty foolish (and doomed), won’t you?
Follow the link above to see other readers’ answers. Here’s mine.
If it turns out that the universe is, in fact, ruled by some kind of all-powerful petty tyrant who will consign me to torture for all eternity because I couldn’t believe a bunch of ludicrously-implausible stories which all available evidence shows to be just one more random mythology like hundreds of others, regardless of all the good I’ve done during my life, then I guess I’m just shit out of luck. I don’t see any point in worrying about it because there’s nothing I can do about it. I don’t have the power to make myself believe things that are utterly unbelievable, any more than a Christian could psych himself into believing in Vishnu or Zeus when he simply sees no reason to believe in those entities. And there’s no point in trying to fake it. Pretending to believe might fool people, but it wouldn’t fool an omniscient deity.
And that’s another problem.