RE: How do you call someone who is religious only because it makes them feel happy?
November 19, 2017 at 6:49 pm
(November 19, 2017 at 4:49 am)Wololo Wrote:"Faith is what you have in things that don't exist"--Homer Simpson(November 18, 2017 at 11:35 am)Die Atheistin Wrote: That type of religious people, who don't really believe in any God, but imagine that one or more exist because it gives them comfort. Are they atheists who don't wanna leave the religion? Is there a name for this exact type of people?
I'd call them intermittently happy.
Oh, and your "imagine that one or more exist" encapsulates belief pretty well because belief is when you take something to be true when you either have insufficient evidence, or the evidence points to that thing being false. Nobody believes in things with sufficient evidence. So the people you describe are agnostic deists or theists, depending on what attributes they give their gods.