My response to Pascal's wager is
When you consider the quality of the people drawn to and produced by christianity it might be they who fail the test and are kept away from god. So there are actually 3 possibilities.

1. There is no god in which case devoting your life to a nonentity is a wasted life. You lose.
2. There is a god but he is nothing like the Bible depicts and he wants those idiots kept away from him, Or
3. There is a god and he's just like the Bible depicts him. So those who follow him get to spend eternity groveling and hoping that the worst monster in all literature doesn't find a reason to wish them into the cornfield.Getting into Heaven won't make you safe beyond the moment.

If it's 1 or 2 you're better off not being a christian. If its 3 you're still fucked.So you're better off not believing that crap.

Daddy was agnostic, but a practicing Christian "for business purposes" you had to be in the deep south in the 60s or people thought something was wrong with you. (maybe they still do?) Anyway, he did believe that regardless of your belief in a god, if you lived your life according to the bible's tenets, you would have a good life, regardless of a heaven or hell. So he said, but he was also married five or six (?) times, suffered alcohol poisoning once and really liked to raise hell. Of course he went out of town to this, so no one knew but us.

Interesting that the author of the article @ norealgod mentions the major religions to include Judaism which at most optimistic estimate cover 20 million people or 0.3% of the total world population. Hindus who comprise more than 15% of world pop. do not get a mention.

Pascal's wager is a false dichotomy. I don't have nothing to lose by placing my bet on the Catholic faith because if another religion is right, I am still screwed. If I choose religion because it might be right, I give up reason, waste valuable time, and limit my freedom unnecessarily.
Pascal was a logical and intelligent man; so I assume his wager was intentionally deceptive.

Pascal never addressed the possibility that thousands of gods besides the Christian one "might" be real ... and how pretending to follow one god might piss off a different one.

Nor did he address the issue of how the supposedly all-knowing Christian god would not know you were a poser.

I'm no fan of Pascals wager and how it tells you to more or less live a life of dishonesty with a little hubris sprinkled in for good measure. The hubris of course, is thinking that one can simply outwit and trick God by believing for the sake of it to ensure ones own salvation. I'm not going to waste time pretending to believe in something that has no proof of existing and selfishly expecting some reward for it.

I honestly pity those that fall into that line of thinking, because it just seems like unnecessary steps to follow in life that don't need to be there.

Pascal's advice for those who could not, no matter how hard they tried, accept the theism, was to go through the motions and behave as though it were true, anyway. In other words, 'fake it 'til you make it.' This of course would place even more hypocrites in the pews than there already are. Our beliefs sometimes choose us, not the other way around. Based on the evidence thus far presented (or lack thereof), I could no longer force myself to believe there is a god, any more than I could believe that the world is flat! Such notions fall into the realm of 'make believe.'