Reply #2: I lack a belief in gods. Though for most specific gods I will say for practical purposes

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that there is zero chance they exist.
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?"

I was raised in a somewhat non-religious household. My parents are both believers but dislike organized religion. My father's family is Jewish while my mother's is protestant (with one Crazy Converted Catholic sister). I went to church once and synagogue once. I did study the major religions somewhat extensively in my late teens early twenties. That's where I really started to find most religions rather distasteful. The more I read the more I realized how truly twisted the holy books are. Having never been religious I mostly find the whole thing confusing. I really have a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that adults believe in talking snakes, magical golden plates, and soul saving zombies.

My wife tries to explain the religious world view to me sometimes (she was mormon until she took a feminist lit class in college) but I just don't get it. I have a lot of believers that I love and care about, I just don't understand the religious part of them.

Besides the baby eating and occasional virgin sacrifice, I think I have pretty strong morals. My wife's family is mormon and a pretty big family. My wife's mother, who is very religious, had a tricky moral dilemma a couple of years ago and I was the one she called for advice. I took that as a pretty big compliment.