I've felt like this due to a fondness for the art and the culture behind religion, as well as what I perceive to be the aesthetic beauty behind the metaphysical arguments of people such as Bishop Berkeley, Rene Descartes, Leibniz, and some of the stories of Jorge Luis Borges. I'm the only atheist in my neck of the woods, and the only way I know of to connect with other atheists is the internet (though I wouldn't want to, because internet atheists are assholes and idiots who think Sam Harris is some kind of genius). I'm not going to tell you to go pick up a book about 'Spirituality for Skeptics' in which you will undoubtedly bump into loads of repackaged snippets of Buddhism, Epicureanism, and Spinozist concepts dumbed-down and simplified for people who "aren't religious, but **definitely spiirriiituallll**, oooooohhhhh" but I will simply reassure you that you're not alone. Practice kindness and virtue towards your fellow man regardless of whatever you believe, and search for your own truth regarding the world.
IIN to want to believe in God but not be able to?
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I've felt like this due to a fondness for the art and the culture behind religion, as well as what I perceive to be the aesthetic beauty behind the metaphysical arguments of people such as Bishop Berkeley, Rene Descartes, Leibniz, and some of the stories of Jorge Luis Borges. I'm the only atheist in my neck of the woods, and the only way I know of to connect with other atheists is the internet (though I wouldn't want to, because internet atheists are assholes and idiots who think Sam Harris is some kind of genius). I'm not going to tell you to go pick up a book about 'Spirituality for Skeptics' in which you will undoubtedly bump into loads of repackaged snippets of Buddhism, Epicureanism, and Spinozist concepts dumbed-down and simplified for people who "aren't religious, but **definitely spiirriiituallll**, oooooohhhhh" but I will simply reassure you that you're not alone. Practice kindness and virtue towards your fellow man regardless of whatever you believe, and search for your own truth regarding the world.