I've had multiple people—both atheists and Christians—tell me things like...

"I like to pretend like God is real sometimes because it's nice" or "You may as well believe because a reality without God is depressing."

Yes, it is depressing. Does that mean God is real?

Since this is the internet, I have to clarify, I ask this question more in terror than challenge. I'm terrified of there being no God.

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Kwek00 · 41-45, M

Considering how human beings are... and that in the myths, we are the creation of God. Considering what we know, on how human beings make descisions, spoiler alert: there is very little if any "free will" to be found. Maybe you should be a bit more fearfull of the idea that there is a God that created us. Espescially if we are made in the image of that creator. And if you also look at the universe, where a giant rock can randomly wipe us out if it gets caught by the gravitational field of our planet. Or our excistence, where a bacteria or virus can mutate and wipe out a large part of humanity in the most horrible way, ... I mean, if there is a creator look at His works and despair.

Luckely... there is no proof for the hypothesis of an intelligent being behind what we are perceiving. So at the moment, I wouldn't live if there was something hiding behind the curtain.

If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

- F. Herbert, Dune Messiah