Curiosity shouldn't kill the cat.

I fail to see how being comfortable with dying suddenly makes atheism a rational proposition. I’d have to lose a lot more brain function than that to agree with atheism.

This quote I don't completely agree with. I see atheism as a somewhat reasonable position. Certainly many intelligent people through out history did not believe in God. I can understand why someone would not believe in God or why someone would question his existence - as a skeptic or agnostic. What I can't seem to grasp is the failure of people who do not really care on personally seeking if there is a divine. I'm a bit lost when someone says religion doesn't play a role in their life, as in "I don't really care." I can understand if someone was raised an atheist by non-believers or by the non-religious, that the concept of God is a strange if not absent aspect that had little to no role while growing up. It is the indifference towards seeking God - to either "disprove" or to discover the divine that's troubling. It reeks of intellectual laziness.

Whether there is a God or not is one of the fundamental questions in life that everyone should examine. The agnostics I can "get," but the apathetic people are the ones left to be slaughtered by modernism. It's fine to be agnostic after serious reflection; it's not fine to be apathetic. It's fine to not care about learning how fishes breath under water. It's fine to not care why leaves change colors when a new season enters. It's fine to not care about learning the stock market. But like any reasonable adult, curiosity and the hunger for knowledge - the hunger "to know" and "to learn" - should be present in a certain amount.

So when it comes to God, pick a side. Read. Research. Vet your sources. Write. Debate. But don't be apathetic. 

Religious, Agnostic or Atheist

Every now and then these types of threads on IMDB, in its Movie Awards forum, show up. It's always interesting to see what the responses are and the explanations some give to their answer.