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I always took pascals wager as just being about some nebulous creator type of thing with no real specifics because the argument can't really handle specifics.
It was specifically about the Christian God because all others were "obviously" incorrect. It's terrible logic because it discounts:
I think it would be rather the opposite, should be the one that promises the worst fate in the afterlife to non-believers