I have all the characteristic of a human being; flesh, blood, skin, hair. But not a single clear identifiable emotion except for greed and disgust.
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"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or
without it you would have good people doing good things
and evil people doing evil things. But for good
people to do evil things, that takes religion."
Steven Weinberg
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I believe there is no God.
Having taken that step, it informs every moment of my life.
I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and
Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough. It has to
be enough, but it's everything in the world and
everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems
just rude to beg the invisible for more. Just the love
of my family that raised me and the family I'm raising
now is enough that I don't need heaven. I won the huge
genetic lottery and I get joy every day.

Believing there's no God means I can't really be
forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's
good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have
to try to treat people right the first time around.

Believing there's no God stops me from being
solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people
from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree
on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong.
We can all keep adjusting, so we can really
communicate. I don't travel in circles where people say,
"I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing
you can say or do can shake my faith." That's just a
long-winded religious way to say, "shut up," or
another two words that the FCC likes less. But all
obscenity is less insulting than, "How I was brought up
and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything
you can ever say or do." So, believing there is no God lets
me be proven wrong and that's always fun. It
means I'm learning something.

Believing there is no God means the suffering I've
seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the
world, isn't caused by an omniscient, omnipresent,
omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just
testing us, but rather something we all may be able to
help others with in the future. No God means the
possibility of less suffering in the future.

Believing there is no God gives me more room for
belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O
and all the other things I can prove and that make
this life the best life I will ever have.
By: Penn Jillette