Evidence God Exists

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Most believers who become atheists do it as a result of some traumatic disappointment. Something goes horribly wrong in their lives and they lose faith in God.

I guess that's intuitive for believers, and probably true for some to varying degrees. However, I've never actually seen any such evidence for a specific case, and certainly no evidence to allow the inference of a general principle.

So what? Generally speaking, reason has nothing to do with the formation of our most powerful attitudes and beliefs.EG about self,gender,race,relationships,marriage----and religion. These things are all uncritically absorbed before the age of reason,and few people ever seriously,objectively question them. If they did, there would be vastly more atheists in the world.

I think it's just as rational to say at some point in their lives, many now-atheists felt 'let down by God'. That disappointment caused them to question their beliefs,which they found wanting.I began questioning my Catholic faith at age 16. I left the Church at 20.It took me another 20 years of questioning to reach the inevitable conclusion of atheism.IE I was simply no longer able to believe.It was not a matter of choice.

Perhaps in future take care before making such facile and patronising generalisations,there's a good chap. Just makes you seem ignorant and rather dim, reducing your already almost non existent credibility.(at least with me)


The questioning from trauma: I refer you to an excellent film "God On Trial"

God on Trial is a 2008 BBC/WGBH Boston television play written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, starring Antony Sher, Rupert Graves and Jack Shepherd. The play takes places in Auschwitz during World War II. The Jewish prisoners put God on trial in absentia for abandoning the Jewish people. The question is if God has broken his covenant with the Jewish people by allowing the Nazis to commit genocide.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_on_Trial




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See also ' socialisation'

Socialization is a term used by sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists, politicians and educationalists to refer to the process of inheriting norms, customs and ideologies. It may provide the individual with the skills and habits necessary for participating within their own society; a society itself is formed through a plurality of shared norms, customs, values, traditions, social roles, symbols and languages. Socialization is thus ‘the means by which social and cultural continuity are attained’.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialisation