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There's so much mystery in life. When you were young, you think you understand a lot. You can study anything. But you'd slowly find yourself clueless. This rea

There's so much mystery in life. When you were young, you think you understand a lot. You can study anything. But you'd slowly find yourself clueless. This realization as I got older actually pushed me more toward atheism. I realized none of the religions actually got you any closer to solving any of life's mysteries. They just inserted rediculous answers without any good reason to believe them. Now, my atheism isn't the young person's "crusading atheism". It's just simply my current inability to believe that a god or gods are the answer. I'm stuck there until there's a better reason than, "we can't explain a lot of stuff, so therefore we can just insert the supernatural and call it explained."

dnprock 6y ago
I wouldn't say religion makes a lot of sense. They don't answer all. Science sure answers a lot. Religion has some useful ideas. Praying is a form of meditation that calms the mind. Fasting seems to work better than most diets we've known. Having children increases long-term survival. These common religious practices are actually long-term scientific thinking. I thought it's pretty ridiculous that God created the world in 7 days. But then I learned most of the Big Bang happened in less than 1 second. There's good knowledge that we overlook because it is considered religious.