New theistic chew toys wanted!

[The Architect Of Fate]

Don't be so negative. Religion makes people happy, more often than not. 

So does Heroine and for much the same reason

It's only the relative few atheists who seem to have a problem with religion.

That's simple not true

[Spongebob]

Don't be so negative. Religion makes people happy, more often than not. 

A god makes people happy.  The bar is low.

It's only the relative few atheists who seem to have a problem with religion.

That's not true by a long shot.  Atheists reject all religion, but all religious people reject all other religions.  The numbers differ by less than an order of magnitude.

[Ahriman]

Study finds religious people are generally happier than non-religious people.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20...-question/

[The Architect Of Fate]

And a thorough takedown of the idea it's a religion that's making them happy rather than stuff secularism can easily replace 

https://www.livescience.com/9090-religio...t-god.html

So as I said religion offers nothing and Atheism is missing nothing

[Ahriman]

And a thorough takedown of the idea it's a religion that's making them happy rather than stuff secularism can easily replace 

https://www.livescience.com/9090-religio...t-god.html

So as I said religion offers nothing and Atheism is missing nothing

I've always been happy, even before I started socializing with others, and I've always believed in God.

[The Architect Of Fate]

I've always been happy, even before I started socializing with others, and I've always believed in God.

Irrelivant

[Ahriman]

I've always been happy, even before I started socializing with others, and I've always believed in God.

Irrelivant

You're right. The question is about religiosity, not belief in God.

[Neo-Scholastic]

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.

Many of us, including me, were raised in church communities, in my case very rural, that did not feed our intellects. I also understand how such an environment could lead to eventual disillusionment and, for some to bitterness. In my youth, I went all in for existentialism Sartre, Nietzsche, etc...and really I think my understanding of those thinkers at the time was very rudimentary and crude. Now I see their ideas in a more nuanced way and were I an atheist, I would probably veer in that direction.

[Spongebob]

I wouldn't characterize my experience as disillusionment and I am certainly not bitter. It was more like basic disagreement with the concepts. It took me a while to understand that no religion is pure. Religion is imbued with all sorts of cultural baggage and I later learned that much of the aspects that I couldn't abide were in fact cultural. But in that church, the two were indistinguishable, so to accept one is to accept all. So I decided to look elsewhere for a better fit. The problem was that the more shoes I tried on, the more I realized I liked going barefoot.

[The Architect Of Fate]

You're right. The question is about religiosity, not belief in God.

So my original comment stands