(September 8, 2021 at 1:23 pm)Spongebob Wrote:You can believe in God without practicing a religion.(September 8, 2021 at 12:56 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Well I know my parents took me to Mass when I was a baby. But that "conditioning" wouldn't have led me to believe in God, if I wasn't already pre-disposed to believing in God on a spiritual level, the same way atheists grow up not really believing in religious stuff.
That is absolute nonsense! Most atheists grew up in a religious home and spent a significant time believing in said religion. I am a prime example. I didn't reject religion until I was in my late 20's and even then I hung on to the possibility of god until my mid-30's. About 95% of all atheists I've met had a very similar experience. This is a bullshit argument that I've heard time and time again and you simply don't know what the blue fuck you are talking about. The true fact is that most people accept the religion that they grew up believing. For the minority who don't, most of those merely change religious beliefs, Catholic to Protestant or Muslim to Hindu, and so forth. Only a small minority reject religion altogether because most religions practice various forms of indoctrination and some practice brain washing to the degree of abuse.
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