h/t: Atheist Republic
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Always Question Authority 
More likely, trust in a personal and providential god emanates from pervasive indoctrination and social pressure. All the believers doubt some of the time, whether they will admit to it or not. However centuries of powerful social indoctrination and peer pressure trump what is palpable and evident–we are alone in the cosmos.
Been a while since this post was active, but it is now.
I’ll have to take exception with the assertion that our “aloneness” in the cosmos is “palpable and evident,” for I don’t think it’s any such thing. Our lacc of success in contacting other cultures after a paltry few years of trying, deliberately and otherwise, is no great surprise. Signals have to get through some pretty strong garbage signals to get to Alpha Centauri, only four light-years away. The farther away, the more junk. In any case, we are only sixty to eioghty lightyears out with our earliest signals capable of surviving interstellar noise. This Galaxy alone is 100,000 lightyears across, and the Andromeda Galaxy , next door to us, is farther from this galaxy than this galaxy is across. I suspect there are civilizations out there that are hundreds of millions, if not billions, of years old. Civilizations we could justifiably worship as gods, but I doubt they have any interest in us. In any case, asserting that we are “alone in the cosmos” is not a reasonable substitute for “there are no gods to cause of solve our problems… we do that all on our own…. or we don’t and we die.”