Mystical Angels

Why many people without religion believe to magic things, miracles, horoscopes and are not atheists?

I guess if you believe to mystic you sooner or leather find a religion. So I don't get it. Why many people who have abandoned organized religion still believe to mystical nonsence.

Public Comments

1. by mystical nonsense, do you mean Santa Claus?
2. I'm atheist, but I read my horoscope. It may not be real, but it's a guide to my life. It gives tips such as "Be nice to your friends, especially today" and I end up in a better mood.
3. To the unbelieving materialist, man is simply an evolutionary accident. His hopes of survival are strung on a figment of mortal imagination; his fears, loves, longings, and beliefs are but the reaction of the incidental juxtaposition of certain lifeless atoms of matter. No display of energy nor expression of trust can carry him beyond the grave. The devotional labors and inspirational genius of the best of men are doomed to be extinguished by death, the long and lonely night of eternal oblivion and soul extinction. Nameless despair is man's only reward for living and toiling under the temporal sun of mortal existence. Each day of life slowly and surely tightens the grasp of a pitiless doom which a hostile and relentless universe of matter has decreed shall be the crowning insult to everything in human desire which is beautiful, noble, lofty, and good.
4. its just like believing in your god he talks to people thru burning bushes parts seas floods the whole earth makes men out of sand and women from men ribs gives a virgin a baby boy then his baby boy turns water into wine walks on water feeds thousand people with a fish and a loaf of bread...i hope i made you feel pretty stupid because it looks like you believe in the same things
5. me! i was born a catholic, but ive given up the religion after my confirmation, i dont appreciate something being shoved down my throat. as of now, i dont know what i believe in, but im not atheist.
6. cos "mystical nonsense" is not forced on them by anyone, its a choice, if they believe it or not and being without religion doesnt mean being without god, or being without spirituality or superstition you beleive whatever you have knowledge of, experience of, and can beleive to be possible so thats why