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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Many Christian people do have an ounce of critical thought in their brains and haven't dismissed it out of hand. You can say they are brainwashed, indoctrinated, faking it... whatever. They can still have thought about it critically. They just came to a different conclusion than apparently he, you or I did. How they got to that conclusion is just as bizarre to me as it is to you but...
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I think that bolded one is important... What's the #1 thing that will determine if you believe in God, and if you believe in God what God you will believe in?
The #1 factor?
It's not intelligence, income, the strength of the holy writing, or anything like that. It's location. Where are you born, where are you raised. That by a huge margin is the determining factor as to what religion you are going to turn out as. I think that says something pretty powerful.
I think many of the "religious experiences" that people have and the decision process they use in their own minds to justify their beliefs (or ease the cognitive dissonance) aren't a factor of being dumb, just a factor of being human and all the weakness and succeptability that entails.