@Kayless RE: Pascal's Wager ...
Pascal's Wager is indeed from a Christen perspective. So many of it's 'flaws' are not flaws from a christen standpoint.
See, that's the problem.

If a Christian tries using PW or similar "arguments" in order to convert an outsider, he or she cannot expect that the other person will take Christian axioms for granted. Quite to the contrary: the would-be evangelist must "think outside the box" and first demonstrate ...
without invoking those axioms (to avoid the fallacy of circular reasoning) ... why his/her religion should be given any special consideration over all the others.
If a believer cannot do that, then I think any kind of meaningful conversation just isn't possible because he'll basically be speaking one language while the other person is speaking a different one.
Pascal is basically saying that religion is spiritual insurance.
I know -- I understand the Wager just fine, I just flat-out disagree with it. Your opinion may differ, but I wouldn't buy a fire insurance from someone who's pointing a flamethrower at my head.
Most converts join a church for some ulterior motive anyway.
That's not a plus in my book.
What you're basically saying is having insurance is bad because it's possible you might be swindle by insurance fraud or the company might not be legit. So you'd rather not have any insurance at all.
Not quite. First, as I said, I do not take kindly to extortion (and no matter how much people try to whitewash it, that's what "believe or burn"
is). And second, I wouldn't buy the "Hellfire insurance" just as I wouldn't buy an insurance against Alien infestation (you know, the acid-for-blood kind from those fabulous movies with the even more fabulous Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley).
Just because someone has thought up an outrageous idea of what
could happen doesn't mean you have any serious reason to act accordingly. For example, I don't suppose you're chasing rainbows just in case some leprechaun's buried a pot of gold at the end, right?
God didn't write Pascal's Wager, Pascal did.
Of course. Remember, I do not believe in the deity called "God" (or any other), so I cannot make that claim.

However, Pascal based the Wager on the tenets of his religion; it's not like he invented the concept of Hell. Therefore, if that deity was real, yes, "bad" would be one of the milder terms I'd use to describe it.
Pascal's Wager is one of the most inoffensive debates for religion that I have come across.
Not from an outside point of view, or at least my POV. Again, let me repeat my mantra that if you want to talk to (or especially convert) an outsider, you must put your opinions and taken-for-granted concepts of faith aside long enough to listen to and
understand the other's position, or you'll simply talking at, not to, each other.
Yikes. Is this long or what?
"Beware of the blindness of those who would follow, and the damnable lure of those who would lead."
- Tamoko
"Mmm? What's this? You gots hammer? Bhaal once drop hammer on big godly toe. Jump around and swear for days, he did. Kicked poor me all the way to Baator. Very bad week, that."
- Cespenar the imp