In the original Pascal's wager, it is suggested that you become Christian, start going through the motions, and this will eventually change your belief so that you think God's existence is likely.
No, in the original Pascal's wager you are advised to believe in God, as God would judge you based on your beliefs (i.e. your assessed probability of existence). However, that doesn't seem to be the form of the Pascal's mugging, which is also discussed quite a bit on this site. The conditionality of reward or punishment on subjective probability estimates doesn't seem to be the point at which decision theories break down, but rather they seem to break down with very small probabilities of very large effects.
Actually, Pascal did advise "going through the motions" as a solution to being unable to simply will oneself into belief. The wager might not be strong apologetics, but I give Pascal some credit for his grasp of cognitive dissonance.
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