It's an interesting topic for sure.
When I first started trying to get sober, I went to AA and I also had a therapist who was a 12 step advocate. I tried so hard to be spiritual but just couldn't.
I tried to be less cynical, was more open to talking to people I had previously spurned and tried to focus on people's good points.
But I don't do that anymore-my tolerance for ignorance is lower than it ever was.
Do people feel they have the "God shaped hole", as I've heard it called?
An emptiness where they either had faith or where they feel they should have faith? It was something I wondered but concluded I personally do not have such an emptiness. But I never did have a god (despite growing up in Catholic Ireland), so I guess there was never anything there to lose.
Anyway, cool topic.