I always get annoyed when someone says, "You don't believe in God?! You must be unhappy with your life." Like believing in a god is the only way to be happy with your life. I hate to tell you, but I'm actually quite happy with the way my life as turned out so far. I don't ask myself why God would bad things happen to me when something doesn't go the way I'd like it to. I don't think people are going to spend forever in a place of torture for believing differently than I do. I don't get offended when someone post a religious photo on Facebook or Twitter. I feel the need to go to a stranger's door at 8pm and tell they're living their life wrong because they don't believe as I do. I don't have a holy book that I live my life by and have to pick and choose the good parts to get people to believe as I do. All in all, I'm happy and content with my life.
Sure, I'd like some things to be different, but I don't pray for a change. If I want something in my life to change, I do my best to change it. I don't get on my knees and talk to an invisible father figure and try to make him change his perfect plan. I can read a book and not get offended because it has a gay wizard in it. I've found that when I don't have a supernatural being to forgive me for my wrong doing, I'm more apt to be more careful not to do wrong. I find comfort in knowing that my dead loved ones aren't in a burning pit because they may have picked the wrong god. I'm not ashamed to say that I don't know it all. I strong enough to not be fearful of the things that I don't know.
It scares me when people ask me why I don't go around killing, raping, and stealing all day. Is that the only reason you don't do bad things? Because you think you'd spend forever in a burning pit of hellfire? Seems like a stressful life. I mean, how do you if you picked the right denomination? What if you picked the wrong god? It just seems like a lot of worry. The way I see it, if you live a good life, then your actions will live long after you die. Just try not be an ass.
