Re: A question for Christians AND atheists
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Do you really think that if there was no religion, no one to teach you there was a God that anyone born today would start believing in God? I am talking about now, after science has explained so many of the 'unexplained' phenomena of the past.
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Absolutely not !
However, we are born into cultures and with a lot of innate but primative perception structures that make social interaction work.
In japan or europe you're more likely to get a 'personality-cult' arising than a 'god' cult, but nothing is ruled out. IOW, I think the hierarchal and alpha-headed perseective of many social animals is pretty deep and quite easy to stimulate. Exactly how it plays out depends on the culture you're born into for the most part.
I don't think 'god' attribution will ever disappear because it's such an easy expansion of two basic paradigms we're stuck with ... cause-and-effect, and hierarchal social urges. The fact that we can think-through both of those does not erase the innate underpinnings.
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