This reminds me a lot of discussions I've had with people over the years about why I'm an atheist. For many, it seems like religion fills an important void in

This reminds me a lot of discussions I've had with people over the years about why I'm an atheist. For many, it seems like religion fills an important void in their life. When they imagine me without a religion, they see me having that hole. But I never felt an absence in the first place. I didn't adopt a religion the same way most people don't, say, adopt a giraffe. I never woke up with "the pain of giraffe-less-ness", so never decided to get a giraffe.