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Why in 2024 do people still believe in religion? (serious) (self.asklemmy)

submitted 3 months ago by return2ozma to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

What makes you think that ‘reasoning yourself out of religion’ is attractive, desirable or a worthy goal?

I think for a lot of atheist converts it becomes hard to keep the alternate reality going, and so reasoning out of it becomes unavoidable. Some people are raised atheist. Personally, I just like to know things even if it sucks.

Most religious people are not literalists.

I suspect that's not actually true at a global level. In Africa many people are so literalist they'll believe they're bulletproof because a spell was cast. Even in the West there's areas where I'm guessing most churchgoers believe funny things about natural history.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There are billions of religious people in the world. I understand that there are millions of examples of people who are literalist and dumb. Religion has a lot of pitfalls. But most religious people are navigating religion in a personal and open manner, avoiding those pitfalls and using the same examples to do so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Again, I'm not sure that's actually true. I suspect literalists may be a small majority.

I get along with religious people of all sorts in real life, to be clear, but I don't think the progressive, quiet Christian or Muslim is as universal as the average Lemmy user may think it is, based on where they live.