The "Causes" of Non Belief are Many


Every week articles appear by Christians laying out the reasons people leave the faith. They blame it on parents, preachers, the desire to sin and other "mistakes." It's always the fault of someone or something Christians don't like. There are reputable trying studies to figure this out. 

According to a referred study (which I forgot to link and now cannot find) there are three principal causes. One is a studies and logical conclusion. Another is an inability to envision the deity which is invisible and another that someone they respected left and got them curious.

Surveys do not find many who left because of logically lining up what is claimed in the faith with what exists in the real world. In my own circle of nonbelievers I find this is the most common reason people raised in a believer's world leave the faith. 

The second, that some people do not have the ability of see in their minds the invisible god or spirit is one that is fascinating. If religion depends on the inner minds of individual people one would think there would be many different things going on in millions of different minds. And that is precisely what we see. There continue to be new gods and each god is seen differently in different believers. Then there are people like myself that cannot see any god.

The surveys found people often said they were influenced to believe or not believe by other people they trusted. This is treated as something different than the first reason, logical thinking. Isn't is possible there is over lap between those two explanations?

In general, it seems the causes of non belief are as varied as the reasons some follow one of the many gods.


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