Let this be your obligatory reminder that LLMs are not designed to provide information or make arguments. They are designed to generate natural looking text. They have no notion of correctness or even coherence. More on reddit.com

This is a good use of electricity and not wasteful at all. More on reddit.com

I am not religious now, but I was raised Mormon and stuck it out until I was about 24. For me, it was honestly purely about social belonging. If I admitted believing in a different religion, I could have lost my social status within the church. I didn't know at the time, but now I'm diagnosed with autism and ADHD. This meant that my social skills were absolutely terrible. I had no friends, so the only place I felt a sense of social belonging was in church. I feared that if I left church or said anything to offend the other members, I would lose my only "safe place" where I felt like I belonged. With my lack of social skills, where else could I go? Well, I ended up going into the military. I got diagnosed and got the ADHD symptoms treated and figured out what was going on with the autism. This helped me develop social skills, and then I felt comfortable leaving the church behind. Fun times. More on reddit.com

I was raised as a Southern Baptist. My grandfather is a preacher - retired now. I used to believe quite strongly. My faith began to fade in my late teens.

One of my problems with religion is that there are so many of them. Practically every culture for all time has had their own separate religion, and each one believed that their's was "the one." What made me think mine was the right one and billions of other people throughout history were wrong and are burning in Hell? I just happened to get lucky enough to be born into a family that believed the right religion? That's bullshit. Clearly, religion is just an attempt to explain a frightening and complex world we don't understand.

On a personal level, I had a bad experience. I had been an active member of my church's youth group for years. I got my girlfriend pregnant in high school. You'd have thought I murdered someone. Many of the people treated me like crap about it. Not everyone, of course, but enough that it hurt. Where was the undying love and compassion they preached about? I sure could have used it at that time in my life.

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