The problem with believing in nothing is that then there is no definition to your life. You are falling through space with no up or down in or out and you never will hit the ground unless you die or are injured physically. When I was in my late teens I looked at this way of being and knew for sure if this "nothing" was what I believed in then suicide (or suicide by taking too many risks) would be my fate somewhere between 20 and 25 at the latest.
Believing in nothing is a choice just like believing in something is. However, to believe in something without good reason is stupid and counterproductive. So, believing in something that doesn't demonstrate it's truth to you isn't useful either. So, whatever you believe in you need a good enough reason to believe in it even if it is only for the day.
So, the problem for me at least as a young man was that I was intelligent enough to know that I would not survive that. So, it was in my enlightened self interest to believe in something and the something I decided to believe in was God. But, my concept of God was not a man in a throne in the sky. No. That is for children who believe in fairy tales. My concept of God is all the intelligence in the universe that allows and creates life on planets and that makes suns and stars and galaxies exist in the 4% of the universe that actually has matter in it as opposed to anti-matter. So, God for me is the consciousness that binds the universe together and all the life forms that exist in endless times and space in endless galaxies and dark matter and in alternate universes going out without limit forever through all time and space and beyond time and space.
So, believing in nothing creates nothing. Believing in something creates something. So, be careful what kind of something you believe in.
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