(July 27, 2015 at 3:54 am)Buzz Wrote:(July 26, 2015 at 4:22 am)AtheistAspie Wrote: To the theists who frequent this board, Why do you believe in god? Is it a simple matter of continuing the tradition of the way you were raised? Is it the result of scientific research in which you determined that religion answered your questions about life and the world more accurately than science? Something else?
As a follow-up question, had you been raised atheist, what do you suppose the chances are that you would have found your god and converted to your religion in adulthood?
I was raised as a believer in God via parental rearing. I continue to be a believer in God from a combination of intuition and intellectual pursuit.
If I had been raised in an Atheistic environment, I would have become religious eventually, with intuition being the starting point.
What do you think of the fact that believers in other religions use intuition as support for their religions? Muslims intuit that Islam is correct, Hindus intuit that Hinduism is correct, etc. Are they right to do that? If not, how can you be right to use intuition as a basis for belief?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
