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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm always fascinated by how defensive (many) religious people get when some talk about leaving religion. They must be a troll or not have read (insert religious text) enough. Those are the only explanations.

It's... just fascinating. [/quote]

They also sometimes assume, with great assuredness, that atheists can't comment on religion with any authority, because they are not religious themselves.   It doesn't occur to them that most atheists these days were raised in a religion -- and it was instrumental in making them atheists. [/quote]

I think on this board in particular, there is a tremendous amount of ignorance on almost any religious topic, and not just from atheists, but believers as well.  It's just a lot of people who are very opinionated and don't seem to have any substantial knowledge about what they want to talk about.  My suspicion is they decide whether they believe or not as teens and never really learn anything after that, but because they read the Bible in Sunday school or whatever they feel they know things.[/quote]

Not really -- people become religious or irreligious at any age. These days, most adults have been raised in a religion, but more and more children are being raised by parents who have given up religion, so there are more child atheists.

Also, many people are curious about religion, at all ages, so get involved with it on their own - either through study or going around to different churches or  church-sponsored youth activities with their friends.  They may become more religious or less religious, based on personal reaction to their studies or experiences.

Plus, your statement [i]"It's just a lot of people who are very opinionated and don't seem to have any substantial knowledge about what they want to talk about"[/i] could easily apply to the political forum or other forums on DCUM. THere's no requirement  to be knowledgeable to post here - only interested and opinionated.[/quote]

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