Spoken like someone who thinks religious beliefs are flights of fancy.
How would you react if you thought your beliefs about G-d were true, as true as your beliefs about gravity?
Shalom.
"Spoken like someone who thinks religious beliefs are flights of fancy."
Not at all. I have met many, many people of great intellect who have religious beliefs. I would not assume that they were subject to flights of fancy.
Nor would they say that of me. You cannot simplify my lack of belief by making assumptions about me.
It's amusing how often people assume that someone who is an atheist is unfamiliar with religious belief. In my experience, that's far from the case. Most atheists I know came from backgrounds steeped in religious belief, myself included.
While my parents were atheists, I was an active Christian in my youth. And that was not just a fancy, either. I had actually begun training for the ministry. I came to my atheism as an adult, after years of study and thought.
After some years, I found myself simply unable to believe that any deities or other supernatural entities or phenomena existed at all. I have found no reason since to change that point of view.
Sitting on the bookshelf in my office is a collection of writings and scriptures that would befit any religious scholar's office. They're all well-read and marked.
My inability to believe is not something I have come to lightly, believe me. Yet, there it is.