I've always been an atheist, personally, but there's one reflection I remember vividly, for whatever reason, that I always think of when I come back to the question of God and whatnot. I was walking home one day and in the parking lot of my college and I was just thinking to myself, "this is all reality, the 'real world', is there really some supreme Being behind all this" and I answered to myself "no". It was, to my mind, wholly inconceivable that there's some omnipotent Being out there at the root of everything. Just consider, every little fucking thing you see every day of your life has some explanation to it, every little thing that at one time was a source of wonderment to human Beings, fire, mountains, lightning, etc., everything has some explanation that we can observe. It's like Freud argued, religion and God are useful to human beings, as a transition from this state of wonderment (I'm using my own words and poorly paraphrasing his own line of bullshit) to a more mature, organized state of being at which point we really need to grow the fuck up and abandon it as it has no use.
I shouldn't say that, it has a use, as a comfort, as a form of security, in the same way group therapy or meditation might, but it does not command my respect on some higher level. Just be fucking honest with yourselves. Of course a world where there's a righteous God behind everything is probably preferable, it solves a lot of problems for everybody, and I find that incentive is enough to cause people to live their entire lives believing in God but for fuck's sake be honest with yourselves.