Many athests are confronted with this so called “wager”. In the event you have not heard it, here it is:

If you erroneously believe in God, you lose nothing (assuming that death is the absolute end), whereas if you correctly believe in God, you gain everything (eternal bliss). But if you correctly disbelieve in God, you gain nothing (death ends all), whereas if you erroneously disbelieve in God, you lose everything (eternal damnation).

The task of fighting this claim has already been taken on by many a greater fellow heathens than myself, yet how can I have an atheist blog without atleast confronting it? Basically what is being said is, you should believe in God because if you are wrong you lose nothing and only have heaven to gain. If you choose to deny God, you have everything to lose and nothing to gain. I instantly see a problem with this. The devout believer who visits church each week and possibly more than once a week does lose something. Say I am right and when you die there is nothing. That would mean all this time of prayer and worship was a WASTE OF FUCKING TIME. As an atheist, I understand we only get one real shot at life, and I am not going to waste my time on a halfbaked piece of religious dogma every week.

There is also the possibility that the believer is wrong. What if God is really just a one-armed monkey? And he also is angered by your devotion to all the other false gods. This would actually set you farther back in the books than an atheist. I would assume he would appreciate somebody who seeks truth rather than blind devotion. That’s just me though.