The thing about religious belief is that it is not based on logic. I'm a believer and I realize this. When I became a Christian about, what now, 12 years ago? It was music that got to me. Nothing logical about that. Now that I've settled down it's like, "there is a great river of spirituality that is part of my heritage as a human being, and this is how I partake of it." Humans munching dinosaur stakes is not required. Faith is a mystery. The Passion is a particularly powerful mystery. That's why versions of it occur in many religions. That is also why I love the Eucharist. I'm content to let it remain a mystery to be contemplated, not a historical even to be proved or disproved.

All of this is why atheists who "disprove" the existence of God or some other aspect of spirituality using logic and reason make me tired. There are a couple of writers I otherwise like on Medium who do this, so I read the title and if it looks like it's going to be yet more village atheism, more setting up and attacking of straw men, I skip those articles.

My brother is an atheist and he's fond of saying, "I don't need a bearded old man living in the clouds to tell me how to live my life." Oh, please...

My fundamentalist Christian sister thinks I bound for Hell, but I have faith that God will take care of me when I die. I don't know exactly what that means but if I did it wouldn't be faith now would it?