Why I Don't Believe In God (or Any Other Deity) Anymore
I once believed in God. Technically I believed in God twice. First, when I was young, malleable and didn't know any better. The second was when I was a little older and more psychologically and emotionally vulnerable. Eventually, both times I came to reject theology as a plausible theorem for understanding the nature of things and the nature of things to come. But it wasn't until the second time around, when I came to fully appreciate, through observation and analysis, that there are reasons why I bought into the whole "Jesus loves you and has a plan for you" marketing ploy, and it all boiled down to matters of basic psychology in terms of needs and wants. In addition, it was full of toxicity, hypocrisy and ignorance, where people cherry-picked what they wished to believe and dismissed the rest out of convenience. I could get technical and delve into things like Maslow's Pyramid and the like, but that's beyond the scope of what I am writing about here a