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[robvalue]

Ya'll can help me with more understanding of what I believe and why.  I am sure you have your reasons for not believing, I am just trying to genuinely understand.

Welcome matey...

I can help you with what you believe and why. Indictrination.
None of us are born religious. It's something that's drummed into you from a young age.

As a skeptic (as most here are), we ask why is it that every theist's one true God just happens to be a geopolitical decision? Zeus is my man!

It doesn't sound very divine, does it. That's the reality Without the mechanism of indoctrination, there would be no religion.
We see it for what it is. A tool. And a very good one. Don't take our word for it, just ask the world biggest landlord.

cheers.

Yup, indoctrination. Religious belief correlates extremely highly with geography. That either indicates that there's several gods all with limited fields of influence; or else people are just believing that they are told as children, which is entirely natural. Our brains are blank slates when we're young and our instincts are to trust adults. We have no tools with which to decide whether what they are saying makes sense or not yet, which is why indoctrination always starts so early. Leave it until children are much older and suddenly the belief rates would drop right out. Leave them until they're adults and you'll have virtually zero.