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How many of you subscribers of organized religion acknowledge?
That you're essentially following an argument from authority (in believing your prophets and/or other leaders and/or writers of holy books)?
That this authority can either be 1.) Infallible or 2.) Completely Speculating/Lying?
That we have no reliable way of confirming or disproving this authority?
That there are several other conflicting authorities, and that consequently the probability of legitimacy of any one authority is quite low?
That the authority you originally subscribe to is highly correlated with the authority your parents subscribed to?
That consequently, your particular original religious affiliation is very possibly an arbitrary stance inherited by parental social pressure, and not discovered by truth value, logical progression, or even spiritual experiences?
Perhaps Zios, I admit I largely post things like this to practice forming arguments like this. for when/if I get in an argument about it and when/if I ever go through with my idea of writing a book about them
5 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I'm not religious, but all of the above are true.
Most people are religious because their parents are religious.
Believing in religion is pretending and faith.
They really do not know in the end.
People are not born religious, same way they are not born racist. It's a learned behavior.
Gods are very human like in all religions.
Religious people will hate what I just said.
- ShaeLv 71 decade ago
My family is Lutheran, and I was raised in that environment...That said when I was younger I wanted nothing to do with "religion" because of my religious upbringing; then I found Jesus as my personal savior...thats when everything changed, I am a Christian with little to no religion. Only faith in Christ.
- ?Lv 61 decade ago
and here come the bible verses.... i'm sorry dude but subscribers to organized religion are not gonna understand your questions. you just had about as much of an effect as smacking the hive of retarded bees.
- 1 decade ago
Sorry, I don't understand the question.
I think you have the wrong forum.
You want 'Polls and Surveys'.
- How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You are posing this question to people who can barely read, and you used way too many "big words" for them.
