sanpedropeddler

What about the internet makes this easier to lie about? I could tell you the same thing to your face and you still couldn't fact check it.

Your understanding of their reasoning comes from a fundamental assumption that your choice is the correct choice for every person. They willingly made the wrong decision, therefore they must have been manipulated into doing so.

Many people do just become religious without outside influence. On a large scale, every society will create its own version of religion without fail. Clearly, they have something to gain psychologically by doing so.

While religious indoctrination obviously exists and obviously is a problem, it doesn't discount the actual benefits that religion seems to have, and by extension the reasoning with which some people become religious.

We all do.

When I said "start", it was in reference to the process of changing your religious identity, not your life as a whole.

Never personally met an atheist that had found religion or heard about one

Well congratulations, now you have. It isn't quite as rare as you might think.

I've met both people who have improved their mental health becoming religious and people who did the same by getting rid of religion. I think its less about religion or lack thereof, but more about freeing yourself and making your own decisions.

The fact that some people start as atheists and later become religious demonstrates there has to be more reasons than just that.

They need to just pick an age and stick with it

Even if someone called me a "male" constantly it would kind of freak me out. They are theoretically interchangeable, but male or female just comes off less "human" I guess. If they choose to only ever say male or female then it makes you wonder if they literally perceive you as inhuman.

It probably gets annoying as a bystander, but I don't have a lot of opportunities to bring aviation into the rest of my life. Especially in a way that's mildly funny.

How am I supposed to just stop using this word?? How else is the plane supposed to tell me to put thrust at idle during landing? This is ridiculous.

Not doing well so far tonight

Yeah its just you. I like to judge people based on their actions instead of their race and name.

Irrelevant to what? Their race is relevant to some things and not others. The race of those two men is not relevant to this specific situation. If they did something wrong, it wouldn't suddenly be right if they were a different race, and vice versa.