(May 4, 2012 at 3:04 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: Sorry. I missed that part. Does belief in god make your life better/happier in any way? My lack of belief made me happier, because the world began to make sense once I stopped applying superstition and magical thinking to the things I couldn't explain. What it would be like for you... is impossible for anyone else to tell you.
My belief in god have helped me in some ways, and is one part of why i am the person i am today.
And i've never applied superstition or magical thinking to things i couldn't explain. I've been interested in science all my life, and always looked for a scientific explanation first. If there's something i don't understand, i do research about the subject to find out what it might be (not on a professional level, i'm no scientist. not yet anyway). I've never said: oh, that must be the power of god in some mysterious way.
