Vested Id wrote:

Commander Tansin A. Darcos wrote:

The other opinion of his I disagree with is his religious faith. I personally am an Atheist because I can no longer accept the concepts of Chistianity in particular and belief in a god or gods in general. As the saying goes, "There have probably been 10,000 gods invented by humans throughout history, including Thor, Wotan, Jehovah, Allah, and thousands of others. Your average person does not believe in 9,999 of these gods as being valid. The atheist simply disbelieves one god further."

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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia wrote:

Initially raised Catholic, Smith began to develop doubts about his beliefs in his early 20s, and came to see Catholic Mass as "dry and lip-servicey." Seeking out advice, Smith spoke to a priest, who analogized faith to liquid filling a shot glass, and explained that the glass grows in size as a person grows older, and thus the same knowledge that satisfies a person as a child can be insufficient as an adult. Smith read extensively on Christianity, explored other religions, read the Biblical apocrypha, and tried joining a Pentecostal congregation. The thoughts and ideas he explored during this time formed the inspiration for his film Dogma, the beginning of which features characters using the shot glass metaphor used by the priest. Though Smith still regularly attended Mass as late as 1998,[3] he stated on "Back to the Well", a feature on the Clerks II documentary, that now he only goes to Mass on the day before he starts production of a film, and the day before it premieres. As late as September 2014, Smith told the BBC that he believes in God. He said, "Proof of God is that I have a career."[151], but confirmed his atheism in a 2015 interview, stating that the death of his dog was what caused him to grow up enough to become an atheist. Smith said,

Honestly, when the dog died I kind of realized this. I watched him pass. He was an incredible life force. Never once throughout his entire existence did this dog look up to me and ask, “Am I going to heaven or hell?” He had no religion. I think it was at that moment I just suddenly grew up, hit a point where I was like, “You know what, I don’t need a story that somebody else tells me, that’s going to tell me what’s going to happen after this. Rather than focus on AFTER this, I’m going to focus on THIS. Put all my energy and faith and spirituality into life, not worrying about or wondering what happens after death and listening to anybody who has a story to tell you about angels and whatnot. There’s a plaque hanging at my house, a yoga thing, and I passed it for years and never really read it. It says, “May you realize your divinity in this lifetime.”
It’s not about living in service to some being you can’t see. It’s about living in service to everyone here. Aren’t we supposed to be beings of our own little universes, make things better, not rely on somebody in the sky to help us out? I have zero compunctions about having been raised Catholic. It was great stuff to tell a kid, who didn’t know what would happen to him after he died. Now I know what’s going to happen to me. I’m going to sit in a box and rot in the ground. So I’m going to try to make the most of my life while I’m here. All of that spirituality people want to focus on in the afterlife, I’d rather focus on the living. Being spiritual isn’t necessarily being religious. I don’t begrudge anybody.

I was just with my Mom, she’s struggling to hold on the last vestiges of Catholicism as well. You just get to a point where you’re too old and it doesn’t make sense anymore. Then the truth starts creeping in and logic starts creeping in. It’s not like I lost my innocence or something, you just realize, “Hey, I’m ready to handle more than I did when I was a child.” I would hope I could handle more.

Smith reaffirmed his atheism in 2017, stating that he "believes in people".

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Did you have a dog in your life?