I'm a theist. So why can't I bring myself to believe in the religious horseshit?

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If everything must have a cause or "come from something", then we have infinite regression. That isn't necessarily impossible, just because we can't imagine such a thing. But it does rule out any hope of a big daddy being the final result.

If this is not the case, which seems far more likely based on scientific knowledge we already possess (some would say this is already known to be untrue) then there is no requirement for our reality to have "come from" anywhere. It could have always been, or it could have appeared for no reason at all.

God is just a mental pacifier. It doesn't answer any questions, it just moves them all back a bit.