Pariahjane over at Information Paradox tries to understand belief in god:

I just don’t get it - this belief in god. I never have. I grew up in a household where god was non-existent. Religion simply didn’t exist for me as a child. The only thing I knew was that Sundays were terribly boring because all the other kids in my neighborhood had to go to school on Sunday. I understood that people believed in this guy God and he was a good guy as long as you followed all his rules so I went along with it. If you had asked me when I was seven if I believed in god I would have replied ‘hell, yes!’ despite the fact that I had never stepped inside a church before. That’s just what people did; they believed in god. So I did too.

But not really. I never really believed there was an actual god or supernatural being. And boy did I try! I tried my hand at Christianity, Judaism, Paganism and Buddhism when I was a teenager and I felt just as silly praying to god as I did casting a spell. I was looking for something and I thought god might be the answer but… I just could not buy into it. There was nothing there.

Read the whole post here.

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