RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
May 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2025 at 5:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The whole bit is lunatic framing on it's face. While we're over here babbling about the possibility of evidence and What Word Do? the formation of religious beliefs (such as a belief in christ..though there's no reason to limit ourselves) proceeds unfazed.
We don't argue ourselves into them, we don't argue ourselves out of them. Theists and atheists alike rationalize that change in circumstances well after the fact of the change..or, in the most usual case, well after the initial formation of such beliefs which occurs in early childhood before the age of reason itself. That's why the strongest predictor of a persons religious beliefs (or absence thereof)..is the belief of their parents, right behind that the belief of their peers. Religion is a social phenomena regardless of whether or not gods exist, and there is no necessary or demonstrable genetic or causal relationship between the two. Christ being both imaginary and impossible has not, for example, prevented the dissemination and assumption of christian belief.
We don't argue ourselves into them, we don't argue ourselves out of them. Theists and atheists alike rationalize that change in circumstances well after the fact of the change..or, in the most usual case, well after the initial formation of such beliefs which occurs in early childhood before the age of reason itself. That's why the strongest predictor of a persons religious beliefs (or absence thereof)..is the belief of their parents, right behind that the belief of their peers. Religion is a social phenomena regardless of whether or not gods exist, and there is no necessary or demonstrable genetic or causal relationship between the two. Christ being both imaginary and impossible has not, for example, prevented the dissemination and assumption of christian belief.
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