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That’s the premise of Pascal’s wager which I’m sure you are familiar with and already have a prepackaged answer for Log in to see images!
That was my pre-packaged answer to Pascal’s wager – more than one religion make mutually incompatible claims that not believing in them specifically will lead to damnation, and it bumumes that god would reward some huckster for playing the odds while sending to hell the atheist with integrity who refused to lie about his true beliefs. If god’s that petty a tyrant, I’d sooner go to hell then bend knee.
Sure, priests and clerics might say that lip service is all it takes (or death-bed conversion, or whatever fruity little ritual they’ve cooked up) but I wouldn’t trust a cleric to know the mind of god any more than the next man; if they’re advocating lip service they likely just want an bum on a pew and more money in the collection plate.