[QUOTE=ciderguy;4988017 Now. Now I realize – big surprise – that it's just as self-righteous and pretentious to reject the supernatural. I'm sometimes back at the death and taxes place, then I'm with my parents and I feel so very good that I'm certain that they are as real as anything. I have a physical sensation when they're here but I've been in and out of belief for two reasons. The first reason is because they don't touch me. I don't have many real memories of my mother but my dad and I were always physically affectionate and I've thought that my mother would have been the same. That's not a great argument, really, because it's very possible that they simply exist in a different way.

What do you mean it's "self-righteous" and "pretentious" to reject the supernatural? The reason I ask is because when I decided to renounce religion, many people told me that I will burn in hell. I see no evidence for belief in anything supernatural (currently). Christians seem to think they are so above me intellectually, which really bothers me.