Exactly, whatever religion your parents tell you is right is the religion you believe in. Yet if you were raised by any other parents you would believe the religion they told you was the right one. The only people who are actually right are the people who think for themselves and realize that magic does not exist and all religions are wrong. Congratulations.
Even the religious are Atheists in regard to other gods.
Incorrect. We are born with one god, which is usually our mother. As the fallibility of this god becomes evident, the reverence can be re-directed by indoctrination towards a mystical entity.
(Un)fortunately, I happen to retain vivid memories of my very early infancy.
I heard a piece on NPR yesterday on why religion exists. Don't remember the title but as usual it was an in-depth conversation. Much of the attraction of religion was stated as tribalism, a sense of community, and signs of belonging to a group such as a head scarf, star of David or fish. I'd recommend listening to it on the NPR web site.
and then judgment and hate changes us, divides us, and diminishes us...
The swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity explained very well why we are faithless by default in the song faithless by default from their album Atoma.
LYRICS:
To ends unknown by means unworthy
To answer wishes, long dead and gone
Old empty promises, a just reward for the blind
Belief makes work for idle minds, we lost our way
The only dream that matters is the one you wake up from
Go
Onward to the singularity
Whatever they say, whatever they do just go
Turn on this unentity
Whatever they say, whatever they do just go
We are faithless by default
We are faithless by default
I call for a world where we are nothing
More than the sum of what we know
Are we to be geld hostage
By our tolerance for the intolerant
Then we've lost our way
Then we've lost our way
To hope is to surrender in this series of defeats
Onward to the singularity
Whatever they say, whatever they do just go
Turn on this unentity
Whatever they say, whatever they do just go
We are faithless by default
We are faithless by default
A pain far too familiar
Denounce your savage self
Go
Onward to the singularity
Whatever they say, whatever they do just go
Turn on this unentity
Whatever they say, whatever they do just go
We are faithless by default
We are faithless by default
Faithless by default
Well, nonreligious. You actually have to learn something about religion before you can say that it’s ridiculous.
We are all born unprogrammed. Some of what we learn is for survival, while some of what we are taught is to control us. Also, as time goes by, we learn to discern the difference. And hopefully sort out what we need and reject what we don't. For some God is something that they feel they continue to need. For others they get along fine without that encumbrance.
More accurately, we are born without preconceptions until we start telling ourselves lies and developing our own preconceptions. Sure, religion really greases the skids, but natural selection has made us prone to logical fallacies in the service of perceived certainty / safety. If religion weren't there, many of us would make up our own woo. Why do you think some children have imaginary friends of their own conjuring?
The cure to religion isn't no religion, it's critical thinking, which should be taught in all schools at all levels.
A study conducted in 2011 by the University of Oxford involving 57 researchers who conducted over 40 separate studies in 20 different countries representing a diverse range of cultures indicated that belief is natural.
Dr. Justin Barrett of the University of Oxford's Centre for
Anthropology and Mind says: "The preponderance of scientific evidence for the past 10 years or so has shown … a predisposition see the natural world as designed and purposeful and that some kind of intelligent being is behind that purpose. If we threw a handful [of people] on an island and they raised themselves I think they would believe in God."
Professor Pascal Boyer, an anthropologist at Washington
University, says "Religious thinking seems to be the path of least resistance for our cognitive systems. By contrast, disbelief is generally the work of deliberate, effortful work against our natural cognitive dispositions — hardly the easiest ideology to propagate"
The French Philosopher Henri Bergson said, “Many
human societies have been found with no sciences or arts, but none have been found without a religion."
Science confirms Atheism and disbelief is acquired and very unnatural