Realized after 18 years of resounding silence that I was praying to nothing, decided that the particular being in question (Judeo/Christian God) did not exist, and so far everything has done nothing but confirm my suspicions.
I asked myself, "If the Bible was manmade propaganda and the whole thing was made up, what would give it away?". 18 years of resounding silence and all things behaving exactly as could be expected if there was no supernatural puppetmaster at all was a good indication. Of course, I always hear the popular reductionism that I'm not attributing perfectly explainable and insignifigant things that happen reguardless to the Christian God, and that is why it appears to not exist.
The way i see it, if there is/are a God/Gods, and they wanted us to worship them and pet their egos and all that and if we didn't they would endlessly torture us for not complying with their terrorist demands, they would make it undeniably clear that such is the case.
That they, if they exist, hide themselves so thoroughly indicates that they want to be unknown.
Such beings would not go to such great lengths to conceal themselves if they wanted our lives to be impacted by their existence.
So we're left with either Gods that don't exist, or don't give a shit either way, which makes them completely superfluous, inconsequential, irrelevant, and unimportant.
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