I have been an atheist since I was 14 years old, 4 years ago; since then, I learned how to stand on my own, be strong, and to not rely o any magical being... everything was, and still is, fine, I did not experience any superficial sufferings nor punishments and I lived my life in a very logical and moral way with no experiences of religious irrelevance. So I asked, what is there in god that man can't let go? If a life without god is just as contenting, less the time-consuming religious acts, why the need for an omnipotent being then? If man can still live his life in a moral way without the guidance of the 10 commandments, why still hold onto the notion that god exists?
A few months ago, fate jokingly answered me. I suffered a vast amount of metaphysical pain, which I can't overcome easily, and to top that, I can't contact any of my friends whom I feel comfortable with in sharing my problems. After this, I realized that: if I were a religious guy, I would've had a fatherly figure who I can console my problems to.
After that incident, I finally got my answer. People need god in order for them to have a meaning in their lives, so that they won't be haunted by the grim reality of the cosmos -- that we came from nothing, and we don't know where we are headed to or what we're here for, and that our mere existence came from pure chance, no reason, no mission in life, no destination. That we are all going to die and who-knows-where we're going to and we don't know what will happen then. That all our efforts will just go to waste, as if nothing really happened.
"We live to live."
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