Look bro, it's an emotional choice. You want to feel as if you've got an omnipotent father figure watching after you, fine, it's your predicament. You want to belong to a tradition that is hundreds of years old and share a feeling of kinship with other like-minded people, that's fine too, humans have an innate sense to belong... the rest of it is a big old hocus pocus voodoo old wives' tale from a very long and extremely gruesome period in the history of the species... this is how people coped back then, do you understand? Religion is evolutionary buggage, it's not needed anymore, which is why in every nation (apart from America and maybe Ireland) where the standard of living goes up, faith goes down.
Maybe there might be a coorrelation between the people who worked hard/had a great ethic and believed in GOD, and then when they get the desired result, they or their children want to sit back, enjoy everything, and like spoiled brats, don't want give "big ups" to God---because it takes the attention away from them?
America is home to the "self made" God---gods in their own minds, "move out my way haterz, cause I'm coming thru!"
who is going to believe in GOD, when that just takes too much time and takes too much attention away from themselves? Kinds like how obese people dot want to put in the time and work to lose the weight, and change their eating habits, they want to lose the weight now, and eat whatever they want.
