I would rather hope for heaven and eternal life than to spend a whole lot of time and energy arguing about the existence of God.
If I die and just become "dead", did I waste my time hoping for something more?
Pardon me, but that doesn't sound like belief in God. That sounds like hope that there's a God, with the hedge that if there isn't, no loss for you, because the hope while alive feels better than the intellectual exercise of questioning.
Did I misunderstand? I think of belief in God as the positive, unquestioning belief. Not hope. Not it feels better than the alternative. But the awesome belief that God exists, and all the fear, love, etc that goes with that.
The afterlife would be a bouncing around between the worst of horrors and the pleasure of seeing parents. It sounds like an eternity of mental chaos. All the negatives in life would still become a reality, and what rightous thoughts there are would be few and far in between.
"Let your yes be yes, and your no be no."
"Chose thou, whom you will serve."