Why do so many of my people believe in God?

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Too much philosophizing happens about 'necessity' of consciousness in the universe beyond nerve cells.

The experiential component - such as going to a faith-healer or having several reiki sessions and getting healed, premonitions in dreams of critical events that actually do come to pass, dying (if it's really that) and experiencing a vivid NDE, having strange hunches and intuitions turn out to be correct, synchronicities in the kinds of intersection that distill out to one in a billion or trillion if one has to calculate it on probability - things like that tend to suggest a lot to people without any bronze aged tomes getting dropped on them. Similarly some people are just born seeing things that amounts to auras, talking to spirits and various energetic fauna, and finding that they have, in their nebula of consciousness, a reach beyond their own bodies and even into other people's lives.

You may debate the legitimacy of all of that but regardless if they're happening in a person's life and they're thinking critically, particularly if these things hold up under their own scrutiny, what are they going to do? Invoke the materialism of the gaps??

Because the only thing scarier then dying, is dying and spending an eternity burning in hell.....
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short answer.
hope and fear

Referring to fellow autistics/aspies as "my people" comes off as strange.

5) Because believing that there is a meta-natural being who has a purpose for every seemingly useless person

sigh I dunno

I went to a fundie church this morning. I don't agree with everything they teach, or maybe they don't these days. I don't hear much about creation theory from them. Anyhow I cannot deny they do have something that works. They are all happy and secure in themselves. I live in a small market town of daytime sleep walkers, yet these people are absolutely alive. They do have a simple belief in God without complicated theology. They will tell you it is not an intellectual thing and many of them have The Bible is for some of them their main education. But do you see I can reach into their lives and find only caring, honesty and decency. They are more likely to give than want my money. Yes folks this is the UK. If anybody want to judge then let that judgement bounce right back at you. You may find an intellectual criticism, but the simple lives they have are working well. Any criticism of something that is obviously working well seems silly to me.

Has no one but me noticed that the person who started this thread has NOT been back to reply?

Your People ? You are mistaken. Not So Many of Your People Believe in God.
The Problem Here Has to Do With Semantics & Definition-Sets.
I Assure You, When Most Aspies Claim to Believe in God, They Are NOT Referring to God in the Typical Meaning of the Typical Definition-Set. Rather, God, According to Aspie-Versions, Tend to be More Pantheistic, But in the Artificial-Intelligence Sense of Pantheism, And You May As Well Just Call That The Laws of Nature.