# What convinced you to believe in God, if you didn't before?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 25, 2022, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-convinced-you-to-believe-in-god-if-you-didnt-before/968505 "2022-07-25T06:16:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-convinced-you-to-believe-in-god-if-you-didnt-before/968505/9 "2022-07-25T19:43:05Z")

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I’ve created a topic with some questions about this post, in order not to derail this thread:

> [@Judaism rewards and punishments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judaism-rewards-and-punishments/968545):
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> In other thread, @Keeve states: This is not my understanding – I thought there wasn’t really an afterlife in Judaism and that virtue was basically its own reward. Can someone elaborate? @Keeve also states: Two questions – If there is an afterlife, is being Jewish is worse than not being Jewish, because you have more responsibilities in order to get in? It seems like you would be better, Pascal’s wager-wise, being an atheist than a Jew, if the actual God is the Jewish one. Second, are you…

I know I’m violating a board rule by posting questions about Judaism NOT on a Friday evening, but what can you do?

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