Has "X" number of years of coding affected your beliefs? Were you a theist before you became a programmer. For myself, I think my years using logic and abstract thinking made me think more critically about the existence of God. Before programming, I may have had thoughts about the inconsistencies of the Bible, I was willing to take those in stride and leave those doubts in the hands of faith. After programming for a while, taking anything on faith usually came back to bite me. I was more aware of what I was hearing when presented with magical thinking. Your thoughts?