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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Seeing as the vast, vast majority of people who have ever lived have had religious faith, not having religious faith is peculiar. That’s not a value statement, just a recognition of what’s normal and what’s abnormal.
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And how does that happen? Passing down traditions from parent to child, indoctrination, missionaries, theocracies, basically a forced top down dissemination and integration of religion with society. But it really takes parents who decide to break the chain of indoctrination and let children decide on their own as they grow what is and isn't real. When the state fails to provide that by allowing indoctrination before children can reason for themselves, it becomes easy to see how misguided thinking can lead to where we are now.
Also, phrasing it as normal vs abnormal is rather offensive, as if being non-religious is a defect of some sort. I'd say believing in things that don't exist is more defective.