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I was born an atheist.

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I loved this post when I first read it, "Aren't we all?" I smiled and nodded.
It was short lived :-( because research from both neuroscience and psychology seems to lean to hierarchical social animals having evolved 'easy reception', at the least, to the concept of "Meta -alphas".
In a simple sense, if you belong to a species that has a social structure that depends on hierarchy it's one of the paradigms you're dealt, and you'll see many situations in terms of hierarchy. So it's an easy build.
Sigh, at a basic level we may be less atheistic at birth than it may appear. No wonder it's a tough position to arrive at.