You're on the right track.
I've been involved in this since the Usenet days of the internet. Google it if you're not familiar with it. In those early discussions, it slowly sunk into us that emotion was far more important to theists than logic. Eventually, we realized it is more important to everybody. It's just the way our brains are wired. Every bit of information that reaches the logical part of our brain first goes through an emotional filter. It's why I was an atheist at 5-years-old - long before I had the capability to logically evaluate an argument. It is generally accepted that we acquire that ability at around age 12. I had an emotional aversion to theism - at least to the Catholic take on Christianity which is what I was exposed to.
If I had been exposed at a young age to some of the New Age thought like Earth itself as divine, I might have been snagged because that is emotionally appealing to me.
I've been involved in this since the Usenet days of the internet. Google it if you're not familiar with it. In those early discussions, it slowly sunk into us that emotion was far more important to theists than logic. Eventually, we realized it is more important to everybody. It's just the way our brains are wired. Every bit of information that reaches the logical part of our brain first goes through an emotional filter. It's why I was an atheist at 5-years-old - long before I had the capability to logically evaluate an argument. It is generally accepted that we acquire that ability at around age 12. I had an emotional aversion to theism - at least to the Catholic take on Christianity which is what I was exposed to.
If I had been exposed at a young age to some of the New Age thought like Earth itself as divine, I might have been snagged because that is emotionally appealing to me.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
