If you believe the controversy surrounding the legitimacy of religious faith is no more than than petty and pointless nonsense, unfit for the serious mind, then you are free to go celebrate your ignorance in whatever way seems best to you. If, however, you seek deeper meaning, let us move forward here.

Is there any benefit to be found by focusing your faith and reasoning in what turns out to be a high probability game of chance? Something deep in our souls tells us no. If our approach to faith rests merely on the tenet of “well, what have I to lose if I'm wrong, if correct then everything is mine to gain...” Surely this desperate approach to faith is last in a line of pathetic attempts to justify the hardness of an unbelieving heart. It is soulless.

If the foundations of your faith were that weak and underdeveloped, based on a near mechanical calculation (as a gambler placing bets on his own life), then what's within you to resist any other self-proclaimed deity that may come along? If there was one to arise (like the Mahdi) and proclaim “I am the expected one from god, confess me, and all shall be well with you after death in paradise,” are you prepared to yet again weigh on a scale the potential benefits of infinite gain vs. eternal loss? No one serious in the faith finds any tendency within them to resort to this kind of weak theological virtue. We must be strong and live our lives with resoluteness.