What is needed to combat the overwhelming level of belief in God?

[Excited Penguin]

Let's stay on point and keep it simple.We're talking about belief here. I'm saying we can free people from their religious dogmatism and help them embrace a freer mindset. You say we can't. Tell me why not.

Now you're just straw manning me, I never said people can't let go of their belief.  Belief tends to be generational.  One generation giving it to the next.  It piggy backs on brain developments that occur when children are still vulnerable and dependent on their families.  It's a perfect storm which almost* guarantees genesis of belief from generation to generation.  There are people who escape belief after being indoctrinated just as there are those that convert after being non-religious.  The fact is that there is no general swing one way or the other in the numbers; and that fact has some very deep roots.

I'm not straw-manning you. Let's lose this kind of language in what I think is a casual conversation, why don't we? Let's not complicate things and throw accusations around. I could do the same, but I'm not. I'm trying to get somewhere. Let's get better at understanding what the other means to say so we can more easily discuss various things, not add unnecessary levels of difficulty to it.


I don't think it has any deep roots. It's just an accident of history. And we can change things. That's my contention.