A common question among some of my theist friends is "why do people believe in a god" and "how do they begin to believe in a god in the first place"

here is one of the more plausible answers that we came up with for the question "how do they begin to believe in a god in the first place"
the answer is "hypnotism"

I have been discussing athiesm with my brother on email, he is thiest i am strong athiest. I post this because i know that in becoming an athiest is sometimes hard and traumatic but it is for the better.

For me coming to terms with the nonexistence of an after life and and finding a reason to go on as a living being was exceptionally difficult. A person cannot really be an athiest and believe in an afterlife, they also find it difficult to find purpose in life.

If you can make it through the "Agnostic" or middle ground position, without going insane
and realize like i did that there is no god/or after life then you will be ok, but what helps is to have a purpose. I have a beautiful wife and a genius one year old son, they keep me going.

Everone is born an Athiest, I believe that God was created in the image of man and hense is a myth. I wasn't always an Athiest I served as a devote servant in a baptist church for 16 years (after my mother and father beat me repeatedly with a long wooden spoon and a slipper to become religious) and met a lot of good people there. I realised something though, as I was worshiping thin air and trying hard not to feel guilty about masterbating the previous day I realised that (through a complicated prosses) that religion is for wankers. Shortly after that I stopped masterbating or feeling guilty.