I have a feeling that not that many people actually believe in God. Many people believe in belief in God. That is, they think it is a Good Thing™, and they try to believe in God, they hope to believe in God, they wish they could believe in God, they go through all the motions, they try very hard to be devout. Sometimes they succeed, and for some periods of their life they actually do, in some sense, believe there is a God, and they think they are the better for it. Otherwise, they behave like people who probably don’t believe in God. Very few people behave as if they really believe in God. A lot of people behave as if they believe they should believe in god. How would you behave if you believed in God? You would, perhaps — and some people do this — be prepared to take what other people would consider suicidal risks because you believe God is going to be there to save you. You would be prepared to give away everything you owned because God commanded you to do it, and so forth.
~ Daniel C. Dennett (born: 1942-03-28 age: 69)