Do you think people who have grown up in normal 1st world countries actually believe in a magic god?

Very few people believe in a "magic" God. Many realize that as God is the Creator of everything, he might live outside of science, and is thus supernatural. That is quite different from magic though. Most people in first world countries believe in God, mostly because God actually exists.

Studies show that over 90% of people in the world actually believe in some kind of god and/or afterlife. Most of these are Monotheists.

What kind of insult are you trying to make with the term "normal 1st world countries"?

Are you implying that non-1st world countries somehow not normal?

Or that there are 1st world countries that are not normal?

Either way, do you know that the term "1st world" is a old Cold War political term meaning within the sphere of influence of the USA and its allies?. "2nd world" meant within the sphere of influence of the USSR and its allies. 3rd world meant non-aligned. Look it up.

With love in Christ.

I think in the UK there's still this odd degree of religious ceremony as a tradition but not connected to actual religious belief. For example lots of atheists and non religious people might try to get married in a church, or watch royal religious ceremonies on TV without questioning it, and most school children go on school trips to the local church at Christmas and Easter, or listen to a school chaplain lecture despite having no interest in religion or god. I was raised non religiously and I don't think I know any real Christians but I've been to church loads of times at primary school and treated it as an opportunity to get out of school without ever questioning why the school was making non religious children go to church and pretend to pray. I went to an ordinary high school and nobody believed in God except the Polish and Muslim students, everyone else treated religion as a joke and laughed at the chaplains desperate attempts to make religion look cool and modern.

Magic?

I believe in the God of all Creation.

What about you? Are you clinging to the "goo to you" theory where you, hummingbirds, giraffes all have a rock for a common ancestor?

Certainly some do. And yes, some are only doing a tradition, certainly.

Also, some people only learn math superficially, and others learn/discover it in a way that they understand it far better.

I can only speak for me, but yes I do actually believe in God. Once you have meet him, spoken with him and spend hours in his presence, it is very difficult NOT to be believe in him. You would have to deny hundreds of things to do it.

Do we look back to the "traditions" of our faith to help us understand God? Of course. Just as we look back at the science/traditions of math to help us understand numbers, or the traditions of history to help us understand the culture influences that shape the way we are today. Nothing wrong with that.

But my belief in God is not based on "tradition" since I am not part of the same faith in which I was raised. I changed to the Christian faith that I hold today while in college and I learned the logic and philosophy that support it from instructions I came to know while there.

I really do believe in God.

traditions and false teachers, with devil worship and there is evil magicks as well as ways to overcome curses and poisons. however, its all the works of the flesh, aiui. what we need to learn is the truth about how God works and how to rely on the power of the Holy Ghost to overcome the works of the flesh with the works of the spirit. and by His power. but first we need to learn to repent of our sins so we can available for such blessing through obedience and also by faith.

Well, I have seen way too many "Coincidences" in my life to chock it all up to random chance.

Well, children who aren't indoctrinated by their parents don't believe in shiny invisible men above.

I don't believe in a "magic god" but the one true living God and His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.