Firstly I don't think christian beliefs are " silly " I just don't follow them as I feel many of them are not right for me. I have already answered your question in another thread, and I quote myself thus:
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I chose paganism because of my love and reverence for nature, and the feeling within that there is some sort of higher force which to me, is intrinsically and irrevocably connected at it's root to the natural world. I do believe it is a dual force ( light & dark, male & female, life & death ect ) but you can't have two ends with nothing in the middle, so it is also all the grey inbetween the two. I haven't chosen a pantheon to work with, I do not feel the need to yet, and I may not ever feel the want. Only time will tell.
I do understand though that there are many who do feel the need to have a visual image of deity to work with, and so choose an ancient set of god/ess images , mythologies and the knowledge contained within them to provide focus and meaning to each day.
I find myself drawn to looking further Druidy, and also to the Celtic pantheon and mythologies. I don't know if I will work with them or not though.
You don't need religion or any sort of devil / evil figure to instill morals and decency into a person , or frighten them into mental and spiritual rigidity for fear of dipleasing whatever deity it is, and ending up in some horrendous form of existence after death.
I have found with paganism that there is a vast amount of basic common sense, and no need for any sort of rulebook, saying if you do such and such wrong then <insert deity> will be angry, and you will end up wherever for the rest of eternity .
If you mess up then it's you who has to deal with it and it's consequences. Try to put it right as best you can and move on.
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Those are just my own personal beliefs , and I feel that I identify with paganism most strongly. I was reading yesterday about Shintoism , which looks very interesting indeed. I will be looking further into that.
Also why are you asking pagans specifically? There appear to be about as many pagans as there are christians on here. If anything there seem to be more agnostic and atheist people .