RE: Why are you an atheist?
February 19, 2020 at 8:53 am
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2020 at 8:57 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Children will imagine gods without religious prompting. Additionally, the first person to ever believe in a god had no other believer to push that belief on them - and that happened in multiple locations throughout time all over the world, sometimes more than once in a single region.
It's certainly not the default state of any human being to be religious in any specific sense...but it probably is a default state for many of us to construct gods, at some point. The existence of the subject is actually pretty hard to explain if that's not the case. Leaving some of us who don't, or who don't make the connection between our constructs and intuitions and theism, or who don't receive a specific religious indoctrination (or all three)..thinking like the religious believers are all in on some joke.
LOL, relieved to hear someone else say that, btw. I think I made it to around the same age before I realized that people were actually serious about that shit. May have been an older teen...I'm slow on the uptake.
It's certainly not the default state of any human being to be religious in any specific sense...but it probably is a default state for many of us to construct gods, at some point. The existence of the subject is actually pretty hard to explain if that's not the case. Leaving some of us who don't, or who don't make the connection between our constructs and intuitions and theism, or who don't receive a specific religious indoctrination (or all three)..thinking like the religious believers are all in on some joke.
LOL, relieved to hear someone else say that, btw. I think I made it to around the same age before I realized that people were actually serious about that shit. May have been an older teen...I'm slow on the uptake.
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