The problem is that there may be a god such that your belief and your attitude in life may affect ultimate fate (life after death, etc.). If you worry about goi

The problem is that there may be a god such that your belief and your attitude in life may affect ultimate fate (life after death, etc.). If you worry about going hungry tonight, as you have established, then you should worry all the more about going hungry forever. Therefore, the existence and the nature of God is actually of the utmost importance to you (objectively, if not subjectively). The exceptions are: - if you have confidently established (to your personal satisfaction, even if you don't discuss it with anyone else) that there is no god, or at least no god whose existence would affect you. But you seem to imply that that is not the case. - if you are in such a state of urgent need that you have no time to worry about anything else but your day-to-day survival (which is necessary to be able to consider theological issues, and thus can take precedence). But the fact that you are on Hacker News eliminates that possibility. In practice I mostly act the same as you do, ignoring the issue. But I am aware that it is a completely irrational choice, and that I in fact do not have better things to do.