I’ve been a lifelong atheist thanks to Dad reading me Greek and Norse mythology when I was very young. Hearing these stories, I questioned why people believed in the Abrahamic “God”, while they didn’t believe in the much more believable Norse and Greek ones.
And nobody was ever able to give me a good answer.
And to be fair to Dad, he let me reach this conclusion on my own, never pushing me one way or the other, just presenting the evidence.
That’s when I realised that all religions are just fiction.
And fiction’s great!
It can teach us many things, and help us imagine ourselves in the scenarios portrayed, and even understand the thoughts of someone from a background completely alien to ourselves!
But it’s silly to go believing in it.
What’s the quote from Sir Terry?
“Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.”
