,” leading us to also “read the minds” of inanimate objects or hypothetical unseen actors.
While dual inheritance theory recognizes the existence of innate religious intuitions, it also maintains that those intuitions need to be triggered by actual religious experiences. Thus, it proposes that people become atheists when they aren’t exposed to religious beliefs or practices as children.To test which theory best predicts how people become atheists, Gervais and colleagues collected data from over 1400 adults who composed a representative sample of the American population.
Those who gave up their religion later in life invariably showed strong analytical thinking skills. Nevertheless, plenty of religious people displayed this ability as well. In other words, just because you’re good at thinking logically, this doesn’t mean you’ll necessarily abandon your religious beliefs.
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If you think there is an invisible daddy in the sky, YOU ARE INSANE. WE NEED TO GET THIS. PEOPLE DIE OVER THIS ILLUSION. SKY DADDY = INSANE PATH TO HATE.
I grew up in a Southern Baptist family, went to church every Sunday. I was about 8, when I realized all of it is BS. Now that my grandmother is dead, all of her kids, and grand kids, are atheists. All of us rejected it, without telling the others, until after she was gone.
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