We already know why people become atheists: they just want to sin, they have an inordinate fondness for beetles, and...they are responding to sociological processes of disenchantment stemming from the industrial revolution (and its inordinate fondness for coal) circa 1750.
I mean, I could have told you that long ago. But nah, all this time, you assumed they had "reasoned themselves out of religious belief". LOL.
Reason is the slave of the passions, dude. Human, all too human!
People become atheists because enormous woods of fern-like trees from the Carboniferous were preserved as coal deep undergroun. Then, some British homo (sapiens) found a way to exploit it for a profit, and presto!
ReplyDeleteUltimate cause versus proximate cause. I´m gonna have fun with this material for a week!
ReplyDeleteOn a more serious note, of course there are sociological/psychological reasons for atheism. Which doesn´t prove that it´s false (same with religion). Two different questions.
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