Atheists & Agnostics
In reply to the discussion: I have never felt akin to Atheists nor believers [View all]Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,290 posts)For me, the fact that where someone is born has such a strong influence on which god(s) they believe in & which they don't tells us that it's an arbitrary, imposed belief that most people just accept.
Say a newborn who, for whatever imaginary reason we choose, is transferred from its Southern US Christian evangelical family and brought up in an Islamic family in Afghanistan. Stipulate that the baby would have become a Christian evangelical if raised in it's family of origin. It seems clear the odds are extremely high that that same baby brought up in the Islamic family will be a devotee of the Islamic faith.
Also, the unquestioning belief in the prevailing religion makes me believe that none of them are "the one true religion," and that there isn't one. And that makes me strongly suspect that there is no god. At least not as defined by any of the currently widely practiced religions.
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