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Originally Posted by photon
Heh, I'm sure one could find a set of gods that had mutually exclusive requirements to gain entry to their good place.
Or one could just trust that whatever god there is would be ok with a skeptic that tried their best to live a good life and came by their skepticism honestly as opposed to someone who believed in order to hedge their bets. 
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So more or less you subscribe to Pascal's wager... By believing that god (if he existed) would be pleased with someone who simply lived a good life, you are (presumably) living as though that god exists. You have everything to gain by doing this and nothing to lose.