Is there another motivation for christian belief?

[SenpaiNoticeMeYouBlindShmuck]

Why is it so important to some atheists to speculate about why believers believe as they do? Does it make you feel better about yourself by insulting them?

I'll bite.

I think it's important to try to discover what inspires and provides fuel to dogmatic world views in order to prevent their formation or to weaken extreme expressions of piety. Though not unique to the abrahamic faiths once a religious believer feels only they have the sole truth all too often they feel "called" to lay waste to the rest of the world and destroy everything and everyone who disagrees with them. This can be endured at a low level when the "calling" to destroy the "heathen" way of life is undertaken in acts of charity or preaching, but once said believers gain any form of support or affluence they without exception in the past two thousand years have turned violent and oppressive. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus; all of them do it. The sole exceptions of organized religions I can think of that have not done or endorsed this are the Ba'hai and Jains; purely because they've often been on the receiving end of persecution from Hindus and Muslim's respectively. I have no doubt they too would do the same had they ever gained power.

I think it very important to keep anyone who thinks only they have the sole revealed truth of an imaginary being kept on a very tight leash, or even better prevent such dangerous sociopathic thinking from developing in the first place. It's perfectly fine to think you know better than anyone else, but the dogmatists are never content with that; they feel they have to take over by book and oppressive theocratic legal systems or as has historically more often been the case by sword.