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I can't remember that many people around here declaring their atheism. Any links?

Do I wish there was a god, sure. I'm pragmatic though. There's no evidence of a god existing. Humans take from each other and that's all religion is. I'm okay just being moral and a good person on my own without pissing away money to child diddlers.

The Catholic church could feed the word for decades and maybe a century by selling their assets. Certainly God would approve of that. They don't and won't. They hide from their past errors. To me that's not moral, so therefore I cannot be religious. Any religion. Not just picking on Catholics. They probably have done less evil than most other religions.

Reality is we're animals. Not a knock on anyone here, but you'd have to believe that dogs, cats and squirrels go to heaven as well. No one believes that happens if they're sane. You die and go to a dirt grave, get burned or rot somewhere. If there is an afterlife, I'll be accepted as I'm not a piece of shit human. So I don't really worry about it and I'm not forking over money to kid diddlers or terrorist if I were to be muslim.

I don’t know about the Pascal wager.
God is a concept invented by man, as is religion.