(January 16, 2025 at 5:29 pm)Ravenshire Wrote: What caused them to believe?
Some willful ignorance, a bit of wishful thinking, and a metric shit ton of fear of death.
Basically the same recipe for near any religion.
I was a Christian for many years, and didn't start until age 17.
For me it was also loneliness, and that my friends were Christians.
I consider my early time as a true believer as insanity. I read the entire NT and chose to believe it because I wanted the story to be true. After the insanity wore off, I became sophisticated in making excuses for why God didn't seem to do anything.
