What should replace Pascal's wager in my opinion.

[Anomalocaris]

This thread is irrelevant to the issue of believing God or disbelieving in him.

I've made it clear time and time again, I don't believe in the type of God that tortures people for disbelieving.

I even made a poem defying such a God here:

http://atheistforums.org/thread-13909.html

It rather has to do with how we should rationally deal with religions that threaten people with consequences of disbelief.

I think the rational thing is to investigate the religion and become sure it's wrong if you are not going to follow it.

I feel I have done that with regards to the religions that teach there is consequence for disbelief.

And we have made it clear time and again that whether a god tortures people for disbelieving does not in itself make the existence of said god either more credible or less credible.

The only god that can, even in principle, be credible is one who can be shown to inevitably possess a combination of testable characteristics that must be unique to this god.

There is no overwhelming reason, other than your flimsy wishes, why if any god exist, he must or must not torture people for fun.