Well, there's nothing wrong with wanting or needing something to believe in, but it's a misconception that atheists believe in nothing. They believe in themselves and others. Atheists are judged wrongly and with prejudice, just like other races, gays, and fat people are and have been. People make assumptions about atheists, assuming they have no morals (and the person making this assumption thinks only what s/he calls morals are morals), are evil, selfish, etc. It makes me angry. I have many good friends who are atheists who are kind, wonderful people.

I hope there is a God. I just don't believe in the God of the Bible (and, as far as I know, any other religious text). Man wrote the Bible, and Man colored the Bible according to the times it was written in and according to Man's views back then. I speak of the Bible and not other books, because I have limited knowledge of other books, although what I've read of the Koran doesn't make me like that God, either. That is not to mean I don't like Muslims or Christians; I have friends of both, and not everyone interprets their religion the same as others. I believe live and let live, but if someone pushes their beliefs on me, I push back.

I want there to be a God (meaning male, female, both and neither) and a wonderful afterlife, because, if this is all there is, I'm pissed. I don't deserve to have OCD and panic disorder, and others don't deserve their afflictions and, in many cases, the troubles they have, and I think most of us deserve a better life, or at least more chances for achieving what we desire in life (in other words, reincarnation is okay with me, but I still want a final, wonderful life, a Heaven, if you will). Some people find peace in no afterlife, when that's what they believe, and I understand that. But it doesn't give me peace--it pisses me off. I want a good life, and if I can't have it in this one, I want it in the next. Heck, even if this were a great life, I think I'd want another great life. But, as far as this life goes, I want a do-over!!! LOL!