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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i only know it because i've experienced things that confirm my faith. and it is faith because it's believing in things that can't be proven.

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Sure, but the only reason you have this particular faith is because your parents made sure to inoculate you with it.  If they'd told you, while young, that Ganesh was divine, you'd experience things that confirmed that faith.  If Mohammed, you'd find that confirmed.  If Poseidon, Poseidon.  Etc, etc...

It's just simple confirmation bias, dressed up in robes with a whiff of incense thrown in.[/quote]

NP here -- my parents and I don't share the same faith.  So now whatcha got?[/quote]

There are always a small number of folks who are desperate to cling to something.  The parents of the followers of the Bagwan Shree Rajneesh weren't likely in an ashram either.  But for the vast, vast majority we just follow the religion of our parents, and find the others ridiculous.  If your case were the normative one, we wouldn't see a correlation between children and parents' religions.  Instead the correlation is almost 1.[/quote]

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