I mean people who adopt dogmatic belief systems because they cannot decide or discern for themselves what “good” is or they worry so much about the possibility of an afterlife and judgement for things they might have done that they pick a belief system to guide them.

I don’t understand that, I don’t get being so unable to determine what’s good or not that you start walking on very narrow rails and handing over accountability to some higher power or some old book or scrolls written by other people who are equally clueless. I’m not saying it makes someone “bad” to become spiritual or religious or finding God or something, I’m just saying it’s completely alien to me, I cannot fathom making the series of choices to get to that point.

I find that our capability to think about our actions, our impact on others, our choices and decisions from within, our capacity to reframe and understand our choices, that’s about the only spark of free-will that may be real. It’s a kind of suicide to hand over that one, tiny thing we actually have.