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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My crazy mom who is the church lady. Growing up with her and her demanding that I believe everything she did was enough to turn me off of it forever.[/quote]

I suspect that it just wasn't your nature to believe.

and the demanding didn't help matters.[/quote]

DP. My parents used to joke about the “god gene”, but I actually totally reject the notion that some people are born to believe in a god. This is not an inherited trait, it’s a learned one. [/quote]

I think people are born with or without the proclivity to believe - just as people are born with or without musical talent, etc.  Then, depending on your circumstances, you can develop your talent  or not - or be forced, let's say, to take piano lessons, but never are very good at it.

I do know that some people just feel that there's "something" out there, even if they don't follow a particular religion. And others have no sense of heavenly beings even if they were raised in a religion and forced to engage in religious rituals.[/quote]

“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.”
- Douglas Adams, H2G2[/quote]

In my experience, the "something out there" that people talk about is a calming, protective influence that makes people feel good when they really need it.  They really do feel watched over.  Whether they actually are or not doesn't seem to be the issue.

I have felt calm come over me in difficult situations, but it didn't occur to me (and still doesn't) that it's something supernatural.  It's a psychological coping response.
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