My view and reasons for them. Atheist and Christians welcome here. (short)

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There is something to be said for not growing up in a "believing" family. I think this radically changes the outlook of the person.

Who said anything about my family not believing, lol?  Me, man.  I didn;t believe.  

My belief is something that gives me purpose. I am not sure who you are comparing me to though. Could you specify that?

The very same believers you seek to distance yourself from.  I guess it;s nice that your beliefs give you purpose?  We put fake rabbits on tracks to give greyhounds purpose.  Fantasy works for them, too.  Until they catch the thing..then it;s nothing but tears and misery.  

When you talk about the "foundation" I find wrestling with the belief in God a inherent part of being a human. I don't think just because someone believes there is a God means their perception of the world outside of belief in God is otherwise flawed.

Then you;re simply wrong.  It may be an inherent part of you, but it;s not something I've struggled with.

Did you grow up in a believing family? If you did, then you are going to believe what you were told, because, lol, kids learn from their parents.

I think the difference between myself and the christians gone atheist is that I understand that I have to believe in God because it's so ingraned in my neuropsychology from being brought up in a home that believed in God. *shrug*

And I don't believe you have never considered that God is real. I don't understand why you would be on this forum without an intrinsic motivation that is based on an antithesis to a belief that is so ingrained in the west that there is really no escaping the cultural influence on an individual from the idea of God. Unless you were immersed in a culture that didn't believe in God and yet your parents did, then I would say that opens the door for gray area, but otherwise I see no escaping it.