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What better explains choosing religion of parents.
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What better explains choosing religion of parents.
What has a better explanation to the fact 90% of humans choose the belief of their parents out of all the world views out there?
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RE: What better explains choosing religion of parents.
Better than which explanation?
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: What better explains choosing religion of parents.
(July 26, 2014 at 5:37 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Better than which explanation?

I'm asking what is the best explanation out there with regards to world views to why we chose the religion of our parents 90% of the time.
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RE: What better explains choosing religion of parents.
Quote: If we had opened our eyes to the light under the shadows of St. Peter's at Rome, we should have been devout Catholics; born in the Jewish quarter of Aleppo, we should have contemned Christ as an imposter; in Constantinople, we should have cried "Allah il Allah, God is great and Mahomet is his prophet!" Birth, place, and education give us our faith. Few believe in any religion because they have examined the evidences of its authenticity, and made up a formal judgment, upon weighing the testimony. Not one man in ten thousand knows anything about the proofs of his faith. We believe what we are taught; and those are most fanatical who know least of the evidences on which their creed is based.


--Brig. Gen Albert Pike, C.S.A.
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RE: What better explains choosing religion of parents.
(July 26, 2014 at 5:59 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:
(July 26, 2014 at 5:37 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Better than which explanation?

I'm asking what is the best explanation out there with regards to world views to why we chose the religion of our parents 90% of the time.

That is the most probably the religion you have the most exposure to, and since you have been brought up being told x religion is true, that is the one you would most likely accept.

Someone brought up in a christian country, for example, without access to information on other religions (as was the case for most of history), is not going to turn round one day and start shouting "praise ganesh!" are they?
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J.R.R Tolkien
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RE: What better explains choosing religion of parents.
(July 26, 2014 at 5:59 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:
(July 26, 2014 at 5:37 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Better than which explanation?

I'm asking what is the best explanation out there with regards to world views to why we chose the religion of our parents 90% of the time.

Because our parents tell us it's right. That's it. Really it's very simple.

It's also why it's so obviously not a GOOD reason. If there were a good reason, it would be cross cultural.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: What better explains choosing religion of parents.
Quote:I'm asking what is the best explanation out there with regards to world views to why we chose the religion of our parents 90% of the time.

Inertia.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: What better explains choosing religion of parents.
Because children see parents as role models, so that explains why they would pick their parents' religion. I picked my parents morals and ethics, it's quite normal.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you

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RE: What better explains choosing religion of parents.
I think the simplest is that we are biologically designed through evolution to follow our parents or those raising us. I think us being designed to be prone to follow false religions when their is a huge consequence to that is the worse explanation because it rewards people who follow religion that happens to be the right one for the same reason it punishes people who happen to follow religions that are false, as well, as having a consequence for something most of humanity is practically destined to do by design, seems quite evil of the designer.
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RE: What better explains choosing religion of parents.
Perhaps, tribal groups during the times when humans were rapidly evolving, did better when they sired offspring that comported to an optimal extent with the status quo.

Groups that were too 'genetically' predisposed to rigidity in ways of thought in an environment with random changes didn't fare as well groups that weren't. And groups that had a surplus of free thinkers might have been too fractious to have competed successfully.

Presumably the current genome fluctuates around the 'optimal' value appropriate for the late stone age these days.
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