(April 18, 2015 at 3:13 pm)Polaris Wrote: Weren't most ex-theists just cultural theists who only called themselves theists because their family forced them to attend religious services?
And do you also imagine that little children don't really believe in Santa Claus when they are very little, who have been told that Santa was real, and whose parents even went to great lengths to try to get them to believe? Why is it that so many of them cry when they find out the truth?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
