There's a pretty good chance that Carl Sagan is the reason I don't believe in any gods. Y'know, Cosmos as a kid. With such a wide eyed wonder at the beauty of creation and the processes of the natural world . . . religious books seem boring. Worse, banal. For years and years I kept trying to find a religion half as wondrous, a tenth as wondrous, as the universe Carl Sagan showed me and never came close.