Do you believe in God? So where do you go to church? What is your faith? What do you believe in? Do you have faith? Sometimes when I answer this question I feel that upon hearing my reply, the person asking wants to ask, what is your major malfunction? Then lambast me full metal jacket style. Needless to say you may have already guessed that I am an atheist. However I am a mature atheist and have long since given up the rage of the newly converted I have gone through the pain of questioning so many times that I am almost immune now. I do however get rubbed the wrong way by some things, you know... The fundamentals. I don't believe in "God" yes the leader of the big 5, the Christian God. I don't believe in any deity. I don't see the need to believe in many things. Some things exist and others don't. I have replied to people before when asked, "do you believe in God?" With the subtle tact of a 5 year old on skittles and said things like, "yes, and Santa and the tooth fairy too!" These are pre-emotive comments. The comments of a new convert. I am simply not that guy any more. Some people describe me as agnostic because when asked these days I simply say, no. When questioned further I say that I don't really know or care. Then the other question comes... DO YOU BELIEVE IN ANYTHING? What I believe in is myself, I believe that as humans we are capable of knowing right and wrong without having to be programmed. I believe in other people, the people that I choose to keep around me and hat I'm lucky enough to have some of them want to stick by me. This is what's important to me. Why should I be tarred and feathered for that? It is my choice. I don't attack other people for believing in whatever they do, unless it hurts people. Does what I believe in hurt people? No. What do I do? I try to be a good person, I have and probably will donate to charity before, I share what I have with others, I fight for better working conditions for my team in work. I help people in whatever way I can with tasks that they need to get done, with money whatever it is. Some of the biggest assholes I know are religious, do I attack them for being religious? No. That would be stupid. Are they assholes because they are religious? No that's also stupid to think. Other peeves. Creation? Seriously? This is still a question? There is so much going on around you and there is so much to do and learn and enjoy and the question of how it all began is still haunting us... Let's leave that to the people who know more and I don't mean the clergy. "Science doesn't explain everything!" Well now... What does? A "ahem"(throat clearing noise to be inserted here) "2000" year old expanded upon copy of another monotheistic work? No. Neither of them do. Science is searching for answers, science is constantly expanding and progressing and finding new ways to do things, exploring. I don't believe in science. Science doesn't need belief. Science is a name that we gave to studying the world and indeed beyond the world into the universe. A person very close to me told me that I am limited because I don't believe in anything. You know what? In one way they were right. I don't believe in things that can't be proven or haven't been proven. I am very open minded however and if something was proven to be real then it's real. If something is floating and has no basis then I'm sorry but it's still just an idea. I am quite creative however and come up with amazing problem solving ideas all the time , my imagination is very powerful, and I don't see its limits really. My limits are what I impose on myself, or in the immortal words of Bruce, there are no limits there are only plateaus and you must push past them. Maybe I should open up a bit more to the idea that there is something bigger, out there. Oh wait I know so already in a way, everything is connected. How the web will be woven is far from my guidance. If there is a single weaver out there then so be it. What is his plan? What part have I to play? I tell you something, wondering less about that and working more on bettering yourself and others around you is much more valuable. Find strength where you can, give it back when you can. Don't judge others or think less of them for their faith or lack thereof. There are much better or more correctly worse things that you can do that for.