God: No magic required

[Angrboda]

As I wrote, I "passed" for an atheist for more than 40 years. I can't think of any unusual "stress" that I felt because of this.

I don’t want this blog to be about me and my own specific beliefs. I have them (beliefs), but they aren’t of prime importance, nor would I ever claim my own particular set of beliefs to be “true,” much less “The True.” Eventually, I may get around to talking about them (my specific beliefs), but I want to consider first the Big Picture.

I’m a very long term agnostic/secular humanist who has sometimes risen to the spiritual level of Unitarian-Universalist. My intended audience would be like-minded people. If you are an already religious (or even spiritual) person or if you are a hard core atheist, then you are probably wasting your time. In my own case, I’d had a Big Bang, religious awakening as an adolescent boy, which, over time, faded away to mere background radiation. Religion made no sense to me, though I never got to the point of assertively declaring myself to be an atheist.

— Larry Weisenthal, The Physical Heretic blog (emphasis added)