(April 23, 2011 at 6:57 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Lots of things have an input on religious belief: fear, ignorance, delusion, indoctrination,peer/authoritarian pressure and 'religious experiences' which can be mostly explained as missunderstanding brain chemistry, there is a thread on near death experiences here somewhere where someone has made this error.
These are just some of the reasons for peoples beliefs in the supernatural.
Sometimes people just want to believe insomething and look around for the bullshit that best suits them.
How long have you been an atheist?
