The strongest support for lack of faith in god seems to me the absence of evidence for the existence of god.
Sure there are mountains of both reprehensible matters advocated as morality and contradition/impossibilities in religious text, but if that is relied upon, it could always be argued "But what about X?"
But as to your question, people behave strangely in groups; are not purely rational actors. I recall a study that when subjects were questioned on simple observable attributes, they were more likely to change their answer if the many other people around them confidently answered the wrong result.
Have you ever seen Life of Brian?
You are all individuals!
Sure there are mountains of both reprehensible matters advocated as morality and contradition/impossibilities in religious text, but if that is relied upon, it could always be argued "But what about X?"
But as to your question, people behave strangely in groups; are not purely rational actors. I recall a study that when subjects were questioned on simple observable attributes, they were more likely to change their answer if the many other people around them confidently answered the wrong result.
Have you ever seen Life of Brian?
You are all individuals!
"People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers." - Mythology for Profit
