There's a guy named Richard Dawkins, who's one of my favourite companions, intellectually speaking. Another guy named Christopher Hitchens is also a boon companion if you want to try to think (a habit I encourage for all).
Every morning I have a chat with my buddy Richard. He likes to argue, strenuously and passionately, that there's no God. He's extremely bright and nearly convincing. But ultimately I decide to believe in God because, well, I just want to. The universe seems a lot less empty and cold.
Plus I was studying DNA replication the other day, and I said, "Only God could have designed this. How could the Second Law of Thermodynamics lead to this?" But I respect and appreciate, folks who don't believe in God. I just choose to believe. Somehow my universe has a fixed point... without God, it's just, I don't know, not so fun for me. It's too.. meaningless. (I speak personally, not for the human race)
And I'm serious about Dawkins and Hitchens. They're fabulous conversation partners. Irreplaceable in my estimation.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quo...opher_Hitchens
https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_da...sm?language=en
To me, religion is the human race trying to acknowledge God. It does an awful job, I admit. But the horror of religion in its varied forms doesn't (for me) preclude God. When I see a butterfly I see God's smile. Or a cloud, or a fern.