My hypothesis

[Harry Nevis]

Omg...

Can one of you non retarded atheists please explain it to him...

I can.  Drich is incoherent babbler, whose willful ignorance and name-calling show that believing in god does precious little to help behavior or morality.  Unless he was a REAL prick before...

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And none of these reasons require anything more than what wishful thinking requires.  Believing because it feels good.  I am old enough to contemplate the brevity of life, and it's too brief to accept on the word of an oft-edited old book that there is a god.  Especially when it seems that most of the believers I run across have much more of the attributes in my description.  Having a "personal relationship" with a god, or just believing a god is there, seems to be the biggest decision one could make in one's life.  But most I've run across have given it less thought than where they want to go on vacation next year.  I've rarely seen a positive change in behaviour.  Mostly it's just a way of being judgemental while proclaiming that I know what god wants and you aren't it if you don't believe.  I think very few actually believe.  They believe in believing. You can see that in the persecution complex so many have, shouting religious intolerance when anything they want to be called "practicing their religion" is challenged. And in the redefinition of words like "evidence", "fact", "love", etc to try to fit their stories.  It's embarrassing.

This is only "believing because it feels good" if the claims of Jesus are false. Actually, even that is not true. As long as people believe the claims to be true, their belief is based on the perceived truth value of the claim and not because "it feels good".

It seems you are judging an ideology on the how well a sampling of its adherents have put it into practice and asserting motives beyond what you could possibly know. Seems like you are full of opinions with very little reasoning and facts.

Perceived truth value is meaningless if it has not been determined such a truth exists.  Since there is not objective evidence to the claim, What other reason is there to believe?

And the last comment just blew another irony meter. 

Except many people apparently can't cope with the Existential Nihilism that atheism leads to. Perhaps that is why, despite the "information age" your message isn't resonating with as many people as you might have thought.

Oh, please.  Existential nihilism? Not true.  Look at the gullibility of America during the last election.  Too many people want to feel good, and will believe anything to feel that way.  And whats the down side?  Believing in god costs you nothing, you don't have to give up anything, and all is forgiven anyway.  When somebody claims a personal relationship with a deity, and acts like a bigoted, narrow minded egotist, why would I buy it?