Some Questions for Believers

[Mudhammam]

b. To pose the question a slightly different way: do you believe that most people come to religious faith on philosophical or scientific grounds rather than as a consequence of “historical accident”?

People become religious because of fear of death.

That may explain why people believe their good behavior will result in their asses posted up in cloudy skies with harps after death... but it does not even remotely suggest why people believe their loved ones who deny the alleged significance of Jesus' bloody execution and so-called resurrection or the prophecies bestowed on Moses, Mohamet, or Joseph Smith, should preclude them.