Why do people can't accept that there's no inherent, objective meaning to life and that we just happened to form life on this earth. Like, believing in a god seems like such a sad way to live honestly.

We create value for things in our life so we want to have value on our lives. Believing in God isn't a sad way to live when you've lived it. I believed in God for the first 20 years of my life, and it's really something else. You do feel a connection to something, it interacts with your emotions on a different level. You know there's more to life. It's like being wrapped in a blanket all day.

The despair that set in when I lost my faith was something non-religious folks will never truly understand. It feels like abandonment, only the thing that abandoned you never existed. It's disappointment on an incalculable level.