Believing in something means you find it plausible, not because you get a prize for believing it. For example, if someone hooked me up to a lie detector (assuming these work, for the sake of the argument) and told me he’d give me ten thousand bucks if I said “I believe Elvis is alive” without triggering the lie response, I don’t think I’d get the money.

It also strikes me as shallow. If there is a god, and he knows the only reason I went along with the religious thing was to get a reward (or escape punishment), I don’t think he’d be too impressed.

“Suppose you are right, and God doesn’t exist. When I die as a believer, I have lost nothing….why not hedge your bets so at least you’ll have a chance of getting into heaven?”…