Why Some People Turn to Religion (and Others Don't)
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- This video explores the psychology of religion, beliefs and why some people turn to religion while other people don't. Based on several empirical studies.
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We’re all born atheists. Then we “choose” the religion that we were told to believe in.
Most often society "chooses" our religion for us wether we want it or not.
Facts! It's eye opening when seeing it this way.
God is a tool to serve the vanity of Man to make him feel special in an Uncaring Universe
Actually, studies show the opposite.
Leaving christianity.
A literate 10-year old: "Why were Adam & Eve ashamed of their nakedness?"
A literate teen at church communion: "This is the 'body' of Jesus? This is the 'blood' of Jesus? Well ok..."
A literate adult: "You mean if someone never heard of God or Jesus & couldn't possibly know how to worship, repent, believe, or pray to that particular god, they would be doomed to hellfire?"
It's all about critical thinking.
Exactly, now it is your time to leaver this empty worthless cult called atheism that lead you to obsession for what other believe
Just go
@@Mar-dk3mp
Just go what? Your suggestion is not useful.
@@starfishsystems like your empty cult called atheism and what it gives to your life? Do not worry God will take care about you as well
@@starfishsystems you are the worst generation into a cult
People leave religion because they realize it’s bullshit, people join religion because they’re insecure. That’s what it really boils down to.
Most people don't join religion. Instead, they are indoctrinated into it by parent(s) during childhood. 😳
Having doubts about religion is the first step towards the truth.
Insecurity.. lol.
You're too naive.
I turn to religion, for the same reason most do.
I'm just too honest about the cause though.
I don't think I've ever heard of someone joining a religion when their life was going ok. It always seems like some sort of tragedy or rock bottom moment that starts it. I think this is why religious conservatives want to take away the social safety nets and keep people poor and scared.
@@yasirrakhurrafat1142Okay, that reason being?
Did anyone else feel the story just didn't sound right even as a young child.???
The first shred of doubt I heard from an adult made me realize I wasn't alone. A few months later I interrupted my kindergarten teacher's reading of Noah's Ark to ask if "anyone ACTUALLY believes in this nonsense?". I literally thought that it was what they were waiting to hear. Like I was going to be scooped up and sent to the advanced program, or something. Ah, good times.
@@rimbusjift7575 wow kindergarten beat me. ✌️
As a HFA, religion s torture. The existence of compulsive liars is torture. Typically, geniuses like myself just kill ourselves because religion is proof of mass psychosis and intentional anti truth.
Yup. I have never believed in gods. I believed in Santa, bc Santa brought presents.. then I learned my parents were acting as Santa. That was the end of my supernatural beliefs.
Yes, many of my classmates deconstructed in middle school because they couldn't reconcile the facts with the fantasy.
As long as people are afraid of death, religion will always be around.
Exactly. It was the greatest con job ever invented.
@markhaunert5029 Religion wasn't "invented". It evolved.
@@Lordidude ok. How about it evolved after it was invented.
How about if we ever discover the techiques immortalty ??,
@markhaunert5029 Still not accurate. Religion is an unintended side effect of various evolved traits we have.
What's invented is dogma. But human tendency for religion is inate.
"People do not choose to be atheist, they realize they are."
That's exactly how it happened to me. It was kind of weird how I went from religious to atheist as soon as I heard of the concept of atheism.
Thats very weird.. The concept of atheism? The concept of Not believing in something?
How do you need to discover that.. you either believe the stories, or you dont...
After being brought up a Catholic, going through the school system, etc; bringing my children up in it, after a terrible event in my life, I saw all of it for what it was. Mainly seeing firstly how insincere the majority of people were, then questioning the belief system and finally seeing my truth. You can't unsee it once you realise the truth, even though it was in some ways comforting at the time to believe.
@@miquelr2353 Many children grow up in a religious bubble, where they are taught that literally everyone believes in God. Discovering that there are people that don't believe in God at all can be a big eye opener.
@@dwaneanderson8039 well sure you can believe in God. But questions must arise from stories like noahs ark, questions with no logical answers for its validity
@@kiwi007yep. It can't be unseen once seen.
It’s really scary how the studies highlight the “amazing believers” as those who typically gravitate to religion when dealing with trauma or grief. Christians know this and will “prey” on it. I heard from people for the first time in years when I went through a difficult time. They knew I was “vulnerable” and tried to bring Jesus back in
After I left I started to see this preying on the broken and it is really disgusting. It is much better in the long run to work through the pain, not mask it with false ideas of a bearded man in the sky.
I’m an ex-Jehovah’s Witness, I was born into this high control religion (cult). I believed everything I was taught. Reading the Bible woke me up and I realized, I was believing in fairy tales and fables. I also couldn’t believe in a loving, all powerful God anymore either.
Ex Mormon here with very similar story.
@@denz4133 , I’m glad we both
left our religions - it was hard, but now I’m happy to be free!!
Same here, born in The Truth™, realized that the doctrines were not actually true, so I stopped believing.
@@abednegomosessuryanda2950 l‘m glad you too found your way out!!!!
Some of my relatives are Jehovah's witnesses. They seem very odd. They used to send my father Awake and Watchtower pamphlets in the mail all the time. My JW cousin lives down the street from me. She never mentions one of her sisters. She must have been excommunicated.
I sometimes ask believers specifically why I need their god.
I tell them belief in their specific god isn't required to live a good life, to help others, to be charitable, to be a productive member of society, to be happy, to be kind, to be financially comfortable, to be grateful, to be physically well conditioned. I am all of these things of my own volition, I just cut out the middle man.
They struggle to answer, but with enough pressing it usually just boils down to fear of hell. Or, they try the "that's meaningless without objective purpose blah blah". But usually... hell.
The lose of a purpose, the realization of no eternal afterlife, the thought of the death of a loved one being the end of their existence. All things theism comforts with illogical thoughts created as a coping mechanism to give followers comfort to not shatter their delusions on reality.
"I just cut out the middle man" is a great way to explain things!
Ultimately, if you’re rational enough, you will see through religion right away. Otherwise, if you’re emotional, you won’t be able to.
Fear of a God and eternal torture.
But he loves you. 🤔
@@KAT-dg6el Exactly. Most religious people are either God-fearing or extremely emotional so they won't be able to break this cycle of delusion, as the truth is often bitter.
@@KAT-dg6el Your statement sounds like George Carlin. He was very funny talking about that.
@@KAT-dg6el The god of love. And then he drowned everything and everyone.
@@dontworrybehappy150 And he was more than just funny.
When I moved to a Muslim Country I realised just how completely indoctrinated I had become!! I'm a very happy Atheist these days!
I was introduced to the Evolution Theory when I was around 12, growing up in a religious household, it was the first time I saw a different point of view other than Christianity. It took me only about 1 year or less for me to ditch religion. I was the only atheist in school, I didn't have any peers who shared the same view as me at such a young age. Growing up, when I was about 16, I had some emotional problems and it led me to become religious once again, as if I had never been an atheist. It didn't take long till I left religion, I realised I let my emotions take control of me and that was unacceptable to me. I've always valued reason above all. Since then I've been an atheist and willing to never fall for religion again. Religion is dangerous, because it traps you when you're emotionally vulnerable, when reason isn't what runs your brain anymore. I recommend every atheist to keep reading, to keep up studying, to never take a break from knowledge, because if you get away from reason, your emotions might take control of you when you least expect and bring you into the prison called religion.
As long as there is a desire for A heaven and a fear of A hell, there will be A religion.
I have neither.
They clearly haven’t thought out their idea of heaven, because after a few millennia it will be Hotel California: you can NEVER leave.
My first memories are of my deep interest with the innumerable patterns in pebbles and rocks and I became a dedicated collector of any and all unique rocks and pebbles that were filled with intricate and colorful patterns. I began collecting books and videos about geology.
I also grew up in a very devout Southern Baptist family and was only allowed to have friends who were in the youth group in our church.
I was taught in Sunday School that our planet was only a few thousand years old. But I had simultaneously learned how rocks and pebbles formed and how much time it took for these rocks and pebbles to form their colorfully complex layers and the information that was being drilled into my head at Sunday School wasn’t in agreement with what we can see with our own eyes about the formation of rocks and the composition of rocks and the layers that these rocks were formed in.
So it goes without saying, once I reached the age of reason, I accepted the fact that religion was a human construct, no different from ancient mythologies and was written by people who did not have the information and the technology that we now have today.
So to me, the only difference between religion and mythology is that the believers of mythologies are all dead while the believers of religion are still alive.
I'd like a deep dive into the psychology that is applied to get someone to believe religious claims.
Coercion, hypnosis techniques, emotional manipulation. Things like that.
Indoctrination/brainwashing of poor unsuspecting children or youths results in hardwiring of their religious neural tracts.
As adults they become intolerant and resistant to worldviews of others.
This rises to the level of child abuse.
Thank you. You really nailed it.
This is pretty much what I went through in my own deconversion. There were a lot of things that poked my mind in the church. Things that made me double take. Things that were said that were not right or just plane crazy. Just one day it all came together for me.
Security, joy, purpose, self-discipline, fellowship, love: none of these require belief in superstitious nonsense.
Emotions pure and simple
Imo, It's emotions over facts, or facts over emotions.
In your opinion and your opinion isnt a fact it could be an émotion too
@@Mohamed-bm6ykMy opinion is based on facts.
@@einienj3281 your expérience isnt a fact
@@Mohamed-bm6ykI'm not religious. I go by facts, not emotions. Your personal religious experience is not fact or evidence. You should listen to this video again. It's a study with more than one person and their experience. You might not believe me alone, but there are millions like me out here. That should give some weight to it.
@@einienj3281 which study science studies destroy us destroy our teeth mutilate génitales of people making instant gratification that create narcissism psychopthy it make america libérate slave in a court term strategy which lead to the death of the fourth of their population it grow pollution and climate disaster it make everything matérialistic what it did it did nothing great
I am a retired cop and a retired attorney. Like almost all attorneys in the USA, I have an undergraduate degree and a doctorate. I am a life long learner. I have been a heavy reader since I was ten. I watch educational videos and listen to lectures on a variety of academic subjects. I spend a lot of time thinking about all of these things.
I was driving to work one day when I was forty. I wasn’t really thinking about anything. I was just drifting along. While I was stopped at a red light, it suddenly occurred to me that I no longer believed in God. The only emotion I felt was relief.
I’ve tried to explain why I stopped believing a number of times. I had certainly had my face rubbed in the problem of evil for a long time. I won’t go into all of the details but I have PTSD as a result. I had encountered Christian ministers who were doing some decidedly unchristian and illegal things and who used their perceived positions of authority to try to avoid legal trouble. I had encountered religious figures from other religions under similar circumstances. I had encountered plenty of religious people who were hypocrites. I had seen the conflicts between different religions and within different sects of the same religion.
I had studied enough about the history of Christianity to understand the origin of the books in the Bible. I was familiar with the ways in which many of those books had changed despite the assertions by Christian’s ministers that the Bible was the literal, inerrant, and unchanging word of God. I had studied enough history and science to see where the Bible was wrong. And, there was clearly a lot of stuff in the Bible that conflicted with history and science. There were conflicts between stories about the same events.
I also had never seen any real evidence of God. All that I had seen, heard, and read from religious sources were explanations and proofs that ultimately failed to convince. There were always more rational, scientific explanations that better fit the observable facts.
I guess it just hit a critical mass that day while I was stopped at a red light. I have honestly never missed religion. I have much more intellectual freedom to learn and explore new things without have to compartmentalize things to avoid conflicting with my preexisting beliefs. I don’t have to worry about somehow offending God in the process.
Thank you for sharing this. Sometimes I wish there was a way to find people like you of similar beliefs and experiences so we could have conversations about all of this.
I don't want to chat with religious people, but I would welcome conversations about all these topics.
Or put more simply:
Everyone is born on "The Brain Train" eager to learn about the world we live in. Some find it too hard and jump off the train in favour of believing it was all done by an omni-absent magician. That avoids all that tedious learning stuff!
I'm asked almost weekly, what was the reason I stopped believing in Christianity. There are so many reasons why I left Christianity that I would have to write a book, to give all the reasons why I stopped believing. If I had to sum it all up in one word, it would be 'Reality.' Christianity has no basis in reality. Allegorical, subjective stories. The reason I believed in the first place? There was nothing else... till now. NDE'S, regression therapy (Reincarnation) Paranormal. It really is a new age and not the Dark Ages any longer.
@@einienj3281
Yup, maybe...
If you have rejected one irrational belief for others such as “NDE'S, regression therapy (Reincarnation) Paranormal”, then I suggest a comparison: an drinker who gives up hard liquor for wine is still a drinker. It is even easier to expose the irrationality behind all these “New Age” irrational beliefs, as there are no profound connections between them and our general culture.
@oldpossum57
I beg to differ. The veridical NDE's, Reincarnation and even the paranormal are phenomenal experiences that shouldn't be overlooked. Religion is/was beyond rational and logical. Like a badly written fairytale. Then there's my own personal experiences. If it was for those, I would be one radical, hardcore Atheist.
@@razony
You just swapped one line of magical thinking for another.
@@razony The second law of thermodynamics precludes all sorts of magic.
I think, every dead person that you see, every funeral that you attend, you see your own future. You "live" your own dead when you see people dying. That freaks the shit out of people. Religions claim to have a solution for that. Even if you think there's a possibility that the afterlife is just bullshit you go along with it, because it gives consolation.
And the “knowledge” that you will see your loved ones after death, both yours and theirs. It is comforting for some people, but I just can’t buy into it. Sometimes I think it would be nice though.
I was raised as an Evangelical Christian and at one time I studied (briefly to be honest) for the ministry. However, once I entered adulthood, and began looking at the world in new and different ways, I found that the faith I once held onto so deeply was no longer satisfying. Not only did it not answer my questions, but I now see that my old faith wasn't even asking the right questions I needed to solved. As a forty-year-old man, I find myself somewhere between a form of Christian humanism and Eastern/Stoic thought. I cannot be an atheist but I do not consider myself to be a devout believer.
4:46 This is exactly what happened to me. I couldn't lie to myself anymore. I couldn't reason such nonsense no more.
Yes! And it was a really sad place until with time it was a place of joy!! Freedom like I have never known!😊
🎶It's All about psychology baby🎵
Neuroscience
Education & critical thinking.
@@Sue-xv8os And what happened in utero during the first 3 months of pregnancy is proving to have much more of an influence than psychologists and educators would like to believe - turns out the first 3 months in utero are enormous - there goes all the departments!
@@user-xu6bv7yh2j Sure, but the genes always control the embryo. No gene controls education but humans are genetically capable of learning anything & needing to learn about their world, and unfortunately, infants, babies, little kids who are raised in environments where books & education aren't promoted, and religion is, are going to have a rough life.
Well, according to hormones, urges, natural attractions, it's all leading to psychology in decision making..
😉😉
I've done both, so this makes sense.
A person once exposed to the reality of this life can never truly believe in fantasies. It will be just pretending, because deep inside, they are aware that they are believing in nonsense. I don't think it will make them happy, because I know I will not be happy, believing in nonsense.
How can a god be strong if it needs my faith for its own existence?
Does that not show that gods only exist within your mind?
If you are ruled by fear, is that not coercion? Is your faith not vanity?
Do you ask "how can it be if not for superstition"?
The mystery itself is the doorway to all understanding. When superstition closes the door, then truth and understanding can never be found.
We live in a natural world. Not a supernatural one. The existence of something is not evidence of anything other than its existence. The natural world existed long before man created the superstitions.
I do not follow gods as I have no need for them. I believe in those things that I am able to observe. I have knowledge of them. How can superstition be knowledge? Is it not a source of contention?
I am aware of the various nuances in regards to religion, with even those who wear the label associated with said religion rejecting what others consider to be core tenets to the religion, but one thing I heard often before mainstream internet on why people stay is "I was filled with fear, but with the religion it was removed", fear of death, and wanting to see loved ones.
And I heard this from pastors. Who would relay their stories to their congregations about why they are a Christian. The stories were almost always the same.
It was rarely because they were convinced by decades of religious scholarship, or were skeptical but convinced by a book or evangelist.
It really seems like those who accept being comfortable with being afraid, as ironic as that is, are those that are least likely to be religious, because they don't accept things as certain but that many things are out of our control.
I first started doubting the Bible when I heard the parable of Abraham. Still, I kept my belief until the age of 52. What made me leave Christianity? Reading the bible for myself and trying to become a better Christian!
16 years of Catholic school and I never bought it. It all just sounded so silly.
I thank the catholics for freeing me of religion , specifically theirs, a great gift they never intended to give me 😂😂
This is such good content! Thank you for your work!
This was a great video and I agree. Most (not all) of the the religious people I know are dealing with some sort of trauma
I really like the term "moment of truth". I remember when it happened to me. My de-conversion was relatively quick, lasting only about 5 or 6 months. But when the moment of truth hit, boy did I feel it 😂. It feels like getting a bucket of water splashed onto your face while you're sleeping.
Great insightful video. Thanks
A study should also be done on how some people can leave ALCOHOL while others can't.
Childhood trauma, with an assist from genetics.
There are studies about it. Addiction is a multi level illness.
@@CorePathway Ozempic show how food addiction can be treated - same with alcohol
@@CorePathway psychological element maybe.
It's genetic. Pure & simple.
Very nice piece! Thank you!!
I came into being through my father and mother, I have lived and experienced many things and my life is coming to a close. I have no recollection of a life before my birth therefore I cannot conceive another life after my death.
Right. for all of us.
Q: remember what it was like before you were born ?
A: that is what it will be like after you are dead.
@@j.k.cascade2057 Did'nt you get that bit, it was plain enough? For every living thing there is nothing before birth and there is nothing after death. I cannot say it any other way?
I have a rather long religion story that idk if anyone cares or not, but if not, just don't read lol. Anyway... I had dated a guy a few years back for a few months and then things kinda fell apart. I ended up running into him again about 3 years after we had last spoken and he wasn't doing too great. I guess he had been in jail, homeless and had battled some drug problems. And as they always seem to do, he had found God in jail and was now pretty religious. I didn't realize just how religious he had become until after we hung out a few times. He was still having problems with a place to stay and was crashing at some old veteran guys place that had no running water. So I felt bad for him and invited him to come over for the weekend and bring any laundry he needed done. I also told him he was more than welcome to have a hot shower and I even fed him. Things were fine until religion came up and I told him that I completely respected his views, but I didn't share in them and I just couldn't make myself believe in any of it. He just looked at me with such a weird cold/sad look and said "Oh. You're one of those Science ones".... It was the strangest thing. This happened later in the evening and I could feel the shift in his whole attitude toward me. He just got really quiet and I told him that if it was going to be a problem to accept my feelings on it, then he was more than welcome to leave. He could just take his laundry and go and it was fine and I totally understood. It wasn't like he was obligated to stay or anything. After that he insisted it was ok, that he was just disappointed. Which I found laughable considering I was being more than generous to him and here he was looking down on me?? To put the icing on the cake, he ended up staying the night and do you know just how Christian he was? He initiated s3x and then literally could NOT leave fast enough that next morning lol! He also didn't text me again which was BEYOND fine with me 🤣🤣 Maybe this wasn't the best thing to share but I just wanted to get it off my chest. It really bothers me yet makes me feel relieved that I majorly dodged a bullet with him. I can't be with a fully grown homeless man who literally still believes in fairytales. But from my experience, Christians seem to be the most judgemental people when tbh I was being more "christian" than he was that night by trying to help him out. So yeah, apparently I'm one of those "science ones". I guess Atheist was just too dirty a word for his godly lips to say. Although he certainly wasn't too Godly in his actions the night before 😂
Great video amigo😊
For a somewhat different perspective, I had an American Baptist minister, when I was in my early 20s, that was a good man, intelligent, thoughtful and a fantastic speaker, and his sermons were relatable & thoughtful. I distinctly remember one sermon where he said, “You may not agree with everything I say. So, listening to my sermons is like when you go shopping in a grocery store; you choose what you like, what serves you, and leave the rest on the shelf.“
I think we have to be careful here not to “throw the baby out with the bathwater”, as most of the major religions have some good ideas that are helpful for anyone in this life. For example: “Do unto others …” or the equivalent can be found in all the major religions.
The problem is when you claim yours is the one true religion and you believe your religious books are “infallible.”Unfortunately, the good is often mixed in with the bad, so you (especially younger people) don’t know which is true and which is not. I tend to choose what resonates with me. The problem with that is that I may just be choosing things that I agree with, want to hear or want to believe.
Our thoughts create our reality. Don’t believe me? Consider the “placebo effect.” We’ve all witnessed how our thoughts can often lead us astray (causing us to be positive or negative), and if we dwell on certain thoughts repeatedly that don’t serve us, they become our “reality.” Most religions don’t teach that , nor do they encourage critical thinking. Religions typically discourage doubt or questions, that’s a red flag right there.
And then there are those of us who grew up with minimal religious exposure, became fundies as adults, and then years later, deconverted.
How could an all loving, benevolent god allow the existence of Christian Nationalism?
The same way "He" allows liberal-progressive cult-like wokeists to divisively steal people's minds by falsely claiming systemic racism, and promising them things by robbing (taxing, borrowing against children) hard-working self-starting earners.
Damn good question. I dunno if he would or not. I'm leaning towards no.
Anyone who has the "religious" impulse but can't hack the baggage might want to investigate Buddhism. Here in the West it's pretty much unattached to cultural prohibitions. The clincher is that it takes work on the individuals part.
Yes, work. Wanna become christian, '' saved '' to spend eternity in '' paradise '' ? Just believe, no work ( or thinking ) required.
All you need to do is look at the stock market to realize people are irrational.
😂If I my ask, why the stock market?
@@nelsonkim8561 Markets are moved by psychological factors-not just rational actors.
BOOM!!!! EXCELLENT
Life Trauma Drives People To or From Religion.
Wow. I don't remember the last time I watched a video which I said no to so many times. I felt like Nietzsche upon his reading of Ree's "Origin of Moral Sensations." Nietzsche said, "Perhaps I have never read anything to which I would have said to myself No, proposition by proposition, conclusion by conclusion, to the extent that I did to this book."
I remember noticing a 'discrepency' as a young boy in a Missionary Baptist Church. At the start of each service I heard how God loves each of us but at the end during the altar call that same 'loving' God had turned into one of vengence. Those who did not accept Him were doomed to a "Devil's Hell."
An hour before He loved us unconditionally. An hour later He was pitching us into Hellfire!
So which, I wondered, was the REAL GOD? This bothered me a lot as a child.
This is the threat and fear modus operandi of Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Catholicism, Islam, Mormonism).
The threat is the withholding by oftentimes corrupt self-appointed clergy of everlasting bliss (heaven) unless you honor the clergy, attend services and tithe sufficiently.
And the fear is the promise of eternally burning hellfire annihilation.
Just throw in a little gaslighting: 1) The Supreme Being watches every damn thing you do ... 24/7/365 , and 2) the concept of original sin -- you are dependent on churches, mosques, synagogues and clergy to get your golden ticket to paradise punched.
12 years Catholic school. My first doubts came after we had each been sent to confession and returned with our individual prescriptions for prayers. "God will know if you don't say them all." I thought God's job sucks! Who would want to spend every second of every day of eternity counting all the sins and prayers of every human born in the past, present and future? I couldn't believe he could be so obsessed with judgement and punishment. Once I began alterations of the God I believed in, after a few years, He (it actually) eventually transformed into something other than a sentient being, i.e. not a god. Of course, there's more, but those thoughts aren't unique enough to need retelling.
If so called god knows all you sins why tell them to IT? 😂
Try Pantheism Yes, you are just a grain of sand in a desert, but you are the desert, or stardust in the cosmos.
I was raised catholic, became an atheist, and now I just don't know. Certainly not doing anything organized.
Sounds like you’re an agnostic or deist, i was also a Muslim then became a hardcore atheist, then i realized that perspective is a bit flawed, I studied philosophy and other religions and decided to ultimately settle on being an agnostic, if god exists and he was truly just then he would judge me based on the life i lead and the actions i’ve done and not just my faith. ❤
We are in fact spiritual beings having a temporary human experience. We are born in a state of unity and Oneness with ourselves, our Mother, Nature, and G-d. Then the ego begins to develop around 2-3 years old. As we are forced into society around 5 years old when we are put in school, we quickly learn that our instincts, emotions, and feelings are not welcome in our spiritually dead society. We learn to repress our energies. In doing so, we create the unconscious mind and we simultaneously block ourselves off from the Divine spark located deep inside the heart. This is why most people don't know they are cosmic spiritual beings. The Core Self or Soul is frozen and dormant in most people. A lengthy and arduous process of Self Realization reunites the ego with its Source...with its own Soul Core. Everyone is evolving and is at a different level of consciousness. People at the lowest level of consciousness gravitate to religious myths to give them a sense of meaning. An atheist is a little bit more evolved in that they have reached the rational level of consciousness. A Self Realized person is much more highly evolved than everyone else. Yet Self Realization is not the end...but a new beginning.
It is too bad that the “amazing believers” can’t apply that emotional component to living life with reason!!
Yes, we are all born atheists but many of us change by the way of our parents. My parents were never religious so I grew up believing only in what science taught me. I'm happy this way. My daughter left home and got caught up with a religious family and at the age of 22 I was horrified to find she believed. Her children however do not.
It's funny that I'm riding in a lyft with a driver listening to christian music while i watch this video.
Are your ears ok? If not get some death metal,stat!😂
I simply grew up.
Same as the Santa story.
Something which made sense as a child didn’t work any more as I grew up and studied philosophy, history and logic.
Now that I’m old I’m reading and watching videos by renown scholars about the origins of religions, Christianity in particular.
It’s obvious to me that it was a constant making up and building up stories that didn’t match the supposed predication of the founder, most of which had more to do with political issues inside the early Church.
It seems they didn’t really go into much of the converted atheist. For me I’ve gone back and forth, specifically my conversion was based on what I perceived as a miracle. As well as realizing that fundamental principles of Christianity are true. It had nothing to do with joining a social group/being influenced by someone.
I cannot believe that the atheists who turned to religion grew up entirely without religion. I did grow up entirely without religion, and even though my two best friends during my first eleven years were christians and even talked about their religion some, it never felt like something that was of any concern to me. It seemed to me like a preference in what food you like, something you don’t necessarily share.
2:20 The bird is a Swainson's Blue Mountain lorikeet.
So basically one followed the facts and the other ran away from them. Got it!
If it weren't for religion, there wouldn't be wars.
No. War is a tool of politics. Wars still happen over land, resources, race, and different political leanings. Humans are violent creatures.
Poor people and people who are struggling are more likey to be religious than a person who is successful
What reasonable, healthy system can replace religion for those needing the love and emotion?
Thing is there is over 400 to choose from ,that could take a lifetime of choosing ,just wish everyone could accept others beliefs without killing them over religion.
I tend to agree with these views.
When people go through a tough time they think to themselves there must be more to life than this shit. The 'shit' can be different for each person and they use religion / new age as a saviour. People also reject religion because it does not solve their problems, they find their saviour has not delivered
Some people might be a little more susceptible to being indoctrinated than others. I think the reason could be a combination of gullibilty and a proclivity to conform to social norms.
I've noticed that a lot of Christians have a hard time seeing the world from a different perspective other than Christianity. I don't mean this in a mean way, it's just that often times when I speak to Christians their worldview is very much dictated by their religion. And so for me at a very young age, I was able to see the world from a perspective outside of Christianity whilst I was still a Christian. I was often told that people who follow other religions are lost, but I didn't see it that way. I think that my ability to see outside of the Christian perspective whilst still being a Christian is what eventually led to me becoming an atheist. The avoidance to understand a different perspective I think comes from the fear of being "led a stray".
Just had the last 6 years of my life spelled out by a random video on youtube.
I can certainly see the logic in everything you're saying. It would be very easy to run to a God, if you've just lost someone you love. At least for many lonely people.
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It proves that the muslims who say that ex-muslims "leave Islam for emotional reasons" are just horribly wrong
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I cannot live a lie. The most massive lie is religion. It was a slow process but I realized it by age 14, Amazing aren't I? The truth set me free.
Painful right? That existential crisis of there not being an afterlife, the death of a loved one is the end etc
Yes, with me it was a matter of truth. Truth has proof, so where is proof in religion ? Religion only has faith, faith in extraordinary, supernatural claims...not near good enough for me.
The fantasies of religion do not make the realities of obvious design vanish. There is something greater going on and what many people choose to believe just aint so.. 🤔
If you believe in creation because of these so-called "obvious realities of design" you lack the fundamental understanding of evolution and the scale of time, literally billions of years.
@@leehappy3259 evolution is demonstrably false, Darwin as much admitted it as well, billions is pre supposition..
The problem with the studies referenced in this rather obtuse overview is that it doesn’t get into the actual level of education… college degrees, humanity and social science education in addition just basic education in biology and ecology. The less educated a person in basic evolutionary biology, the more likely they are to gravitate and waffle in their beliefs due to low literacy in science.
I wouldn’t base my belief of God on what seems to be a silly and flawed egotistical human interpretation of him/her/ etc….
In 1984 I knew I didn't believe, freshman year at a Jesuit high school. No internet. Just a Bible, philosophy and religious texts. To this day I have not read God Delusion or God is Not Great.
If something is wrong, why can't it be corrected?
Old wives' tales are proven wrong.
Why have medical practices changed many times?
With all the vast improvements in all areas of life yet so many value opinions of people who killed others for not believing a story or making fun of a story.
If you need to fear god to be a good person, you are a horrible person and live in a perfect bubble that has not been popped, eg unfortunate death, lies disgraceful acts which tear families appart, trigging memories a broken person you once knew, no amount of praying will do anything nore has it ever, just bloody lies.
Oh, it's so nice telling kids santa Easter Bunny tooth fairy are real, seeing the joy.
When they understand the lie, what else was a lie?
for me, science can't explain how the singularity that formed the big bang suddenly appeared. I think theres a realm outside our universe that creates universes, hopefully you go there when you die, thats why I believe in god
Judaism came from sumerian and egyptian mythology. Thats the main and most important reason. Lol.
Stock video footage avalanche. Maybe the author made good points, maybe he didn’t . I couldn’t stomach a constant onslaught of generic images.
Your dead right about this subject
Why does the story require God's son be sacrificed?
Can God simply just choose to forgive sins?
Seems like forgiving people of their sins would be easier than any of these supposed miracles?
Forgive someone or change water to wine? Forgive someone or walk on water? Forgive someone of raise the dead?
If I were creating a God that I hoped you observed as loving and/or forgiving,...I'd have him love and forgive.
Burn in hell? That's a punishment. So I'll be punished for making choices you knew I'd make when you created me? Seems this God wants me to burn in hell before I'm even born.
Remember, if you don't sin Jesus died in vain.
I am proudly an Amazing Apostate 😊
Nah, you are just a weak godless alone person that will pay Infront God to have stopped to believe in him for this empty worthless cult called atheism. We need better people then you and a new generation
Me too
@@Mar-dk3mp😂😂😂 calling atheism a cult is the most stupid thing i've ever heard, the 2. is propably the rest of what you said.
Again again just emotional attacks instead of reason and arguments/evidence.
Because people want to disagree. Yes, I believe in God. I can say, write, type, my God is not your God. However, it seems everyone knows God exists. Everyone knows there is one true God.
@@7hysteresis If that were true why is there such a large division in society? Not everyone only puts them in groups. Some not all. However, the groups disagree so that makes it everyone.
Wait until a I has its say about the Bible.
True or false.
Christianity is the house of David.
Creation has a Creator. The bible is back up by archeology, and the fact of fulfilled prophecies.
I'm the 666th "like" on this video.
The religion is the "truth" 😂 They are funny people
What a small dark world full of ignorance mysticism and superstition theists inhabit.
Atheist is just a meaningless name given by the religious to those that hold their faith in reality.
Just because one does not subscribe to a Deity, prophets and doctrine, does not imply the person does not have a spiritual faith.
God is a slacker just like me..
More and more people are developing an allergy to bullshit.
The name of the channel does not completely suit its content. To seek truth we need a postulation, introduction and reconcilation of theories. Criticism of theories is helpful in terms of avoiding falsehood but not in approaching truth. We do the "doubting game" when we want to dismiss a myth but in order to gain a truth we need the "believing game". The better name could be "dismissing myths".
A little over a year ago, my older brother (who did not believe in Jesus) was in the hospital dying from "multiple organ failure" due most likely to COVID. He was bed ridden, and the doctors had given up on him. My sister told me we were probably going to bury him. I went to the hospital, and I asked my brother if he was ready to die, and he said no. So I told him I knew someone who could save him, and asked him if he would like me to pray for him. He said yes. When I got done, my brother exclaimed "Man that was powerful," yet from my perspective, I didn't feel much.
Each morning, me and another brother of mine, would go see my older brother in the morning. Two days later, my brother got up out of the bed, and WENT TO THE BATHROOM all on his own--believe me that was a big deal. A man in blue fatigues came in, and he looked astonished and asked where my brother was. We explained he was in the bathroom. I asked him if he was the nurse, and he said no I am his doctor, and to this day I remember the expression of astonishment on his face. PRAISE JESUS
You know, my brother walked out of that hospital, and its funny, my brother is now a believer. I wonder why?
My sister got brain cancer at 40. Doctors could only remove about 75%. Hard-core christian. Multiple strokes, daily pain, and paralysis of several parts of her body. She's 50 now.
She prays. The remaining tumor increases. Then she has another operation. More pain, etc.
These type of natural processes occur exactly as you think they would with or without your god.
My dog was riddled with cancer all over. I sprinkled some Holy Water and PRAISE JESUS HE DROWNED!
@@Mr.PeabodyTheSkeptic We are all fallen creatures, and we all suffer from physical pain and suffering. What makes God, God? He knows the beginning from the end, AND He is God. Can I ask, yes. Most of the time--from my lifetime--God has said no. But I still ask. AND FOR MY OLDER BROTHER ON HIS DEATH BED, AND NOT A BELIEVER, HE SAID YES. "You do not receive, because you do not ask." THIS IS NOT A BLANKET STATEMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE, just for some. For some it is a lack of Faith. But sometimes, it takes way more faith to suffer and still believe, and some suffer greatly in this world. When God says NO, He has His reasons, and He is not obligated to tell me why. I endeavor to obey Him, walk in faith, and ask in prayer. It is ultimately up to Him NOT ME. I am just a vessel, a conduit. That is all.
@@chamicels Well, one day I went out to find my dog. I found her under one of our sheds. I had no idea what was wrong with her. She is a big dog, and when I was putting her in the truck, my back went out, but I just managed to get her in. Took her to the Vet, and I asked if he could lift her from the truck, and told him about my back. He examined her, and she had a broke front leg, at the shoulder. Which means, they could not put her in a cast. The only two options
1) amputate the leg
3) or at least 1800 dollars AND up in shoulder surgery to pin the leg. Otherwise she would develop a PEG LEG.
My vet could not perform the operation. I had to take her to a city almost 2 hours away. TWO blocks from that vet, MY VET CALLED and said they could not do the operation--the vet surgeon had been up all night on another animal. I would have to take my dog to another city some other day.
4) Drove home, and I knew that once I let the dog out of my car, I would not be able to put her back in because of my back, and I expected it to be at least a few weeks before I would be physically able.
5) I prayed and told God, that I and done everything humanly possible that day for my dog, and if he would heal my dog, I would go and witness to MY VET about it.
6) Over time, my dog's leg HEALED JUST FINE
7) I kept my promise.
SOME TIME LATER.
I was in a big hurry. My dog (same big dog) would lay under my truck when it was hot. I did not think about my dog, but I BACKED MY TRUCK RIGHT OVER HER.
I saw where the tire pinched her belly area, and it was filling up with blood. I was crying like a baby, and I knew she would shortly be dead. So, begged God in tears to heal my dog. THAT HEALING WAS INSTANT. To my knowledge she seemed to suffer no ill effects, and is still alive today.
SO MY GOD HEALS YES EVEN MY DOG.
It must be nice being so stupid. 😂 What about all the people who prayed, and were prayed for, WHO DIED ANYWAY?
They don’t count, right? It’s thinking like the person who posted this garbage that keeps this Bronze Age BS going.
God is one thing, religion is another.
Avoid organized religion. God is easy access.
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How do you access '' god '' ?
@@jerrylanglois7892You become an atheist, you study physics, you realize there are certain universal laws that make the universe unique, you turn to quantum physics, you become an agnostic, you start looking for the truth outside organized religion, you thinking deeply about quantom fluctuations, you realize the infinite multiverse couldn’t have come from nothing via theory of relativity, you remain agnostic. Yeah that’s basically it, you don’t come closer to god if your an agnostic.
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