Epistemic rationality and Pascal's Wager

Pascal’s Wager is an argument that it is prudentially rational to engage in theistic belief promotion practices (TBPP), namely practices apt to promote one’s belief in God. My interest this post is the standard epistemic rationality objection to the Wager, that engaging in TBPPs is irrational—a kind of brainwashing of oneself. Let’s think about the objection with a bit more care. Consider a…