Gullibility more likely

I def would not say most are cowards. Sometimes I would love go back childish thinking of divine beings and afterlife. Who wouldn't want see the ones they lost after it is all done. I could never do that though. It would take a god coming down and squatting a grumpy in my front lawn for me believe. I'm willing bet a lot of believers lean more towards agnostic but would never admit it.

Or maybe those that openly object to god are cowards too. Like a fear of commitment because you're afraid you might fail and have extended yourself.

Or maybe those who can't decide if there is a God or isn't are the cowards. Just pick already.

So either way you look at it theist, atheist, or agnostic if done for the wrong reasons you're a coward.

Desperate people will grasp at any straw.

Maybe some are cowards with themselves. Some are afraid of what life would be without outside guidance. Some evade their own doubts. Some are a combination of the above. And, I'm sure there are other reasons -- or lack of reason(s).

I wouldn't want to say coward. Let's face it, if you are taught there is a space god that gives you everlasting life, you don't want to accept that you are probably nothing more than worm food when you die.

I agree and it also takes a certain type of thinking to take the big leap from deism to theism.

and maybe they believe in god because that's what they were taught and they've not yet had a reason to question what they've been taught. that makes them unadventurous at the very least but it does not make them cowards.

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Yes, you may be right there. Some people have a need to believe that there is something after this and we are not so very important after all.