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[Spongebob]

We all have human needs, and it is only your own bias and presumption that any of those needs are "god shaped".

Perhaps they are for you.  Perhaps your God exactly conforms to the shapes of your fears and needs.  If so, I suggest that YOU created your God to be that exact shape.

For me, your Christian God doesn't haven anything close to the correct "fit" for my human needs, if the the thing did exist.  Eternal life?  Boring and meaningless.  Comforting?  Not when the thing can't even prove its existence.  Provides meaning?  Not at all - I find meaning in life, people, and this moment.

See, this is where I can relate.  I still possess enough of my Christian knowledge and understanding that I can overlap that with rationalism and appreciate the similarities.  First you must understand that there is no one true Christianity.  It just doesn't exist.  My subjective experience of Christianity can fulfil many things in my life if I interpret it in the right way.  That's sort of where I got off the boat.  I was involved in a church that strongly opposed that kind of radical thinking and I was beginning to reject the ideologies that I just couldn't conform to (and those are legion).  So this led to spiritual experimentation and that just leads wherever it leads.  For me it was a winding path that eventually led to atheism.  But for those who still believe and have needs that are met by those beliefs, I can understand.

I practice meditation, but not with any religious subtext.  I find it extremely calming and satisfying and I can't explain why.  Younger me would have thought that was a waste of time and really, really boring.  I also find therapy to be an amazing experience.  In no way am I going to get dogmatic about it, but I recommend the two to anyone.  It may or may not be your thing.  There are aspects to religion that relate to this.