Atheists & Agnostics

lindysalsagal

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2. All you really need is the hunch that your religion is determined by your location and family

Mon Jan 6, 2014, 12:19 AM

Jan 2014

in order to catch on that it's conditioning, not truth.

If you're born in an Islamic country, you're not gonna be catholic.

Add that to the fact that there are dozens of major religions, and they all believe they're right, and doubt is unavoidable.

After that,the doubt is fed by the utter ridiculousness of all religions, and voila! Another atheist.

But, there will always be smart people who will forgo critical thinking out of desperate need for all those religious payoffs: reincarnation, and reunification with parents, etc.

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Salon: This is your brain on religion :(atheism correlates to education and high I.Q.) [View all] lindysalsagal Jan 2014 OP

I do believe that education has a bearing on it Curmudgeoness Jan 2014 #1

All you really need is the hunch that your religion is determined by your location and family lindysalsagal Jan 2014 #2

And not one single religion has ever been independently "discovered." trotsky Jan 2014 #3

That is probably where I started to have doubts. Curmudgeoness Jan 2014 #4

Many religious people point to the global widespread belief in god/s as Arugula Latte Jan 2014 #5

However, using the argument of widespread belief is just an appeal to populairty imo sakabatou Jan 2014 #6

Agreed. Optimistic folks aren't looking for the big daddy in the sky. But when life is hard lindysalsagal Jan 2014 #7