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That gets right back into free will in my humble opinion. God gave us the ability to either follow his commandments or we can chose to disregard them.
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Free will? If you could somehow know that X religion is correct, lets assume it's Christianity, then you could either conform to that doctrine and be ridiculously rewarded with some kind of utopia in the afterlife, or suffer eternal torment. There's no real choice there. Christians are always saying, "Well deep down you know." No not really. If there's really some benevolent God out there why would he choose to be so silent? If this God does exist, he cannot possibly be benevolent, because any
reasonable person cannot believe in a silent, invisible, imperceptible god based upon some fanatics and an old book. Yet they, regardless of how many or few people they hurt or helped, would burn in hell simply for not believing in something they do not have sufficient evidence to believe in. Isn't it self-evident how insanely unjust that is?
I suppose Christianity is an unfair target, because it above all religions is the most self-refuting, contradictory, non-sensical one that is widely believed. By that I mean the doctrines to begin with don't make sense, e.g. having God send himself/son to earth to suffer and die so that he can change his own rules, and that himself/son dying somehow exonerates people who believe it happened.
Yes perhaps it is stupid to claim there is no God because it lends excessive credence to the claim that there is a God, where the burden of proof lies.