(November 10, 2015 at 3:18 am)robvalue Wrote:I think that most people believe in some sort of deity. But that doesn't mean that they take their favorite deity seriously. Even most clergy don't take their deity seriously. People can be brainwashed to follow the conventions but it takes a whole lot more to become a true believer. People are constantly being indoctrinated 24/7/365 by all kinds of religious propaganda. It's just like national political propaganda. You can still believe in it although you know it's a big pile of crap.
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Wyrd: I don't get it, are you saying some atheists still believe in a real God character?
When people actually think about it they can see that it's asinine to believe that thousands of assorted gods revealed themselves to primitive people but that not one of them will show itself to modern man. But modern man is still stupid enough to believe that such entities showed themselves to ignorant people thousands of years ago and that the tales that those ignorant people told are 100 percent true.
