"I want to believe something I don't believe." ... A puzzling request. I'd suggest doing some comparative religion research and finding something that resonat

"I want to believe something I don't believe." ... A puzzling request. I'd suggest doing some comparative religion research and finding something that resonates and start from there. That said: you don't believe in something divine for a reason. You're basically asking for a way to brainwash yourself. So. What makes you think life would be "easier and happier" if you believed in something "divine"? What is your definition of "divine", something super-natural? For me (militant agnostic, atheist for all practical purposes) the sheer magnitude and mystery of the universe-as-we-know-it is more than enough to believe in. I haven't found it necessary to resort to a "God of the gaps". Instead I'm just fine not knowing everything and not needing a reason for things to be the way they are. I'm also a Buddhist of the variety that doesn't believe in super-natural "beings", divine intervention, etc. I'm not unhappy because I believe we're "just" here for no readily-apparent reason other than that's just the way things worked out. Might I be wrong? Yup. Do I have any reason to believe I'm wrong? So far, no. It doesn't make me sad, it doesn't make me happy, it just is. What makes me happy or sad is the human condition, how we treat each other, how we treat ourselves and our environs, etc. Believing in something "divine" would not change that. If anything it'd piss me off to believe there were interventionist god/ddess/s that don't bother to, or care enough to, prod us in the right direction. All evidence leads me to believe we're on our own regardless of the root cause of our existence, and I don't need any more than that.