If you were ever a theist...

[robvalue]

Just some random musings I find people's motivations fascinating.

I'm quite interested in the reasons people choose to be part of a religion, even if they consider it is "true". I find the whole concept of worship bizarre. I wouldn't worship a god, or anything else, and I can't understand what a god could possibly get out of it.

Even if the religion contains loads of amazing advice, the advice has been given already. There's nothing new. I can learn lots of wisdom from a book and then move on, without feeling the need to have some sort of relationship with the author.

As far as "thanking God" goes, I'd have thought the amount of thanks that is appropriate to give would be proportional to the effort expended. God seems to be described as requiring no effort whatsoever to create everything (although the bible does actually paint a different picture).