beads wrote:1. Don't waste time worshipping a deity because he may or may not exist.
OR
2. Just simply believing in the existence of God and maybe at the end of your road you finally realize that He was real and then having escaped condemnation just by simply believing!
Pascal's Wager. I'm afraid this argument (believe in God, just in case) doesn't hold much water. If that's your only justification for believing, then what happens when someone says "what if you're wrong, and believing in your God is the very thing that sends you to hell"?