Then why did he explicitly state a form of Pascal’s wager?
There’s a serious misunderstanding on your part behind that, but I’m not clear on what it is. You are failing to distinguish two quite different statements.
Again, this bizarre hostility seems quite un-Christian.
Yeah, that’s Pascal’s wager, whether you know it or not. It assumes a false dichotomy: either your conception of God is correct, or no god or afterlife exists. That by no means exhausts the possibilities. What if, for example, Mohammed was right, and you’re an infidel headed for eternal torment?
No, I’m here to point out bad arguments. If your faith relies on those bad arguments, that’s unfortunate. But does it?