If you don't believe in God....I'm just curious

Why do you have to believe in "anything"? Things just are. There is nothing to "believe in", it just is. I think that's scary and people need to believe in a man behind the curtain pulling the levers. The idea of randomness is frightening to them.

I believe there is something, just not in the "ultimate being" sense. It is something so intricate that I can't begin to understand it.

Same for me. I also believe in God, but am not religious.

 minus the coworker discussion.

Nothing in a religious sense, never felt the need to even as a child who others tried to convince otherwise.

It depends on the definition of "God", I guess. I suspect everyone's definition is different, both between people and individually as life progresses.

My definition at this stage in my life is much different that say, even 10 years ago, and it will never be the same as DH's or my brother's, for example.

I think that the differing understandings and terminology we have makes these conversations difficult, but at the same time, very rich.

I believe in good and evil, that there's a balance between them. I believe there are forces at work that we'll never truly understand but to go as far as to call it God? No. I don't believe it's one entity.

I wouldn't quite call myself an atheist and I would never argue there isn't some kind of creative force behind the existence of our universe. But I don't believe in the Judeo-Christian God our culture has created, or any God-like figure from other belief systems. (On the other hand, I do like church. I know, I'm weird.)

What I "believe in," if you want to call it that, is nature and science. I believe in evolution. I don't worry about whether evolution was set in motion by a higher power or not.

Ditto (also minus the co-worker discussion, because I don't have discussions about religion or god with folks IRL).

I have to agree that organised religion has a lot to answer for and imo, has created so much division and hatred and all that goes with that.

My vision of the benevolent Spirit is one of a caring parent, who created us, wants the best for us, but lets us do our own thing. One who cheers us, comforts us, cries for us when we make a mistake, once in awhile swoops in to save us from disaster. One who sees the good in us, even when it's hard to see it ourselves.

But not a Being who has time or patience for petty entreaties to "please help me pass this test", or "win this contest", or "get those new shoes". Not a Being that punishes people who don't pray the right way or use the right words or perform particular rituals.

I believe this Spirit is the basis for all the world's religions, and that our differences in belief are the result of different interpretations of the same Diety. I don't believe any of these interpretations is necessarily wrong, just different from the others. Maybe incomplete. We can only know the whole of it after this life. Guess we will know for sure when this life ends...

I believe in science. I believe in me. I believe that I am in charge of me, and no one else is going to determine the path of my life. I was agnostic until a few years ago (was actually raised Mormon), but am now firmly, devoutly atheistic. The turning point for me (one of a few) was when I got cancer. And learned that I had a genetic defect that caused it. I took so much comfort in the fact that there was a scientific explanation for why I had cancer. No one was doing this to me; no one was picking on me; this wasn't punishment for something I have done--it was just a gene defect because I lost the genetic lottery.

Also, I love someone who was tortured as a child for ten years by a parent who should have loved them. I have no interest in believing in a god who would allow that to happen.

I believe in science. I also I believe in me

I'm always curious when people ask questions like this, why did they choose the god they believe in. How did they come to that decision? Is it just what they grew up with or did they investigate other options and choose one?

I was raised with religion. I had some bad experiences at the hands of people who were godly. I tried to believe, and explored other options before becoming comfortable with the fact that I just can't believe in an all powerful being who allows bad things to be done in his name.

Same here

I tried really hard to believe in the religious dogma that was forced on me as a child.  It never felt right or true.  Never.  I also had bad experiences at the hands of people who thought they were "godly" or good Christians.  This particular religion is not mainstream at all; and while I wanted to believe in God for a while after breaking away as a teenager, all the early and intense conditioning I had been subjected to just kept getting in the way.  I started investigating options, and while there are lots of individual things about many religions I like and could even agree with, I've come to the belief that organized religion just gets in the way of spirituality and humanity.

I'm not going to try and convince people that they don't need religion, and I sure would appreciate that same courtesy from religious people in return.