(July 8, 2010 at 12:23 pm)Godhead Wrote: Reasons to believe or disbelieve are personal.
If this were true, you wouldn't be here, forums like this wouldn't be necessary, 'in god we trust' wouldn't be plastered all over secular items, so on, so forth. People like you would simply accept that some people don't believe and be alright with that instead of proselytizing/witnessing to them at every opportunity. The question 'what religion are you' would never be asked.
Reasons to believe are societal, that's why religious people have so much trouble accepting it when members of their society believe differently, or, as in the case with atheists, simply don't believe at all.