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What is needed to combat the overwhelming level of belief in God?
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RE: What is needed to combat the overwhelming level of belief in God?
(December 11, 2015 at 8:31 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote:
(December 11, 2015 at 8:26 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: I don't know what you mean.  How we think and what we think is part and parcel of the question of god belief.

Let's stay on point and keep it simple.We're talking about belief here. I'm saying we can free people from their religious dogmatism and help them embrace a freer mindset. You say we can't. Tell me why not.

Now you're just straw manning me, I never said people can't let go of their belief. Belief tends to be generational. One generation giving it to the next. It piggy backs on brain developments that occur when children are still vulnerable and dependent on their families. It's a perfect storm which almost* guarantees genesis of belief from generation to generation. There are people who escape belief after being indoctrinated just as there are those that convert after being non-religious. The fact is that there is no general swing one way or the other in the numbers; and that fact has some very deep roots.
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RE: What is needed to combat the overwhelming level of belief in God? - by Angrboda - December 11, 2015 at 8:39 pm

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