Good old Pascal's Wager -- the church as mafioso.
I'm finally egged on to comment the Pascal's wager thing.
Here's my take: true belief is not the same as professed belief. I should hope that God can tell the difference. So, the phrase "choose to believe in God" is senseless.
And a good, kindly, honest, upright atheist has it all over a mean-spirited, dishonest, conniving so-called believer any day in my book, and I suspect in God's book also.