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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you're not raised religious, when you first hear of it you think people are joking. It all sounds so unbelievable, hypocritical, unreal.

And then the more you learn, the more that's all confirmed!

I never "became" atheist. I have never been anything else. Religion is learned.[/quote]

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The rules of various religions are definitely learned, but religious [i]tendencies[/i] i.e., thinking/feeling that there's "something out there" (or not) seem to be innate.[/quote]

Agree ... I'm non-religious and my DW is Christian ... We've been married 25 yrs and I can tell you it's pretty hard-wired in with her ... If I projected my own temperament onto everyone, I'd assume there are a lot of religious fakers out there ... but I've known enough people who believe it all to their core ... that I have to agree some ppl just have the faith tendency.  I say this respectfully since there are many great folks on both sides of the divide.  [/quote]

No, I disagree.  What's common is trying to explain things we can't understand.  "The God of the gaps".  That's why there are so many different religions, all with different explanations for the same thing -- many of which we now know to be untrue.[/quote]

I'd say that's part of it, but there are still people who just feel that there is something out there.  They may or may not believe in the tenets of a particular religion, but they just feel it.  Perhaps the same way other people feel that there is no God, despite being raised in a restrictive religion.

Can't prove it either way, but scientific evidence we have so far leans heavily toward no god -- and certainly no god of the Bible --- creating the world in seven days, etc
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I can picture how that story happened...

Mom was busy making dinner. 
Kid: “who created the earth?” 
Mom: “I dunno...uh....a god?”
Kid: “oh! why?!?”
Mom: “I dunno...but we probably are too dumb to understand”
Kid: “oh....well how long did it take?”
Mom: “omg. I dunno...7 days? Can’t you see I’m busy pounding these grains with a rock? Go get some water from the stream.”
Kid: “ok....”
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What a vividly accurate representation of Biblical culture and society. Ladies and gents, we have a verified scholar in our midst! [/quote]

I can see it ending a different way, in which Kid says, "Sounds like BS to me."[/quote]

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