Is religion a choice?
Is religion a choice?
Caleb Scott
Josiah Cruz
More often than not it isn't. Your geographic birthplace and ethnicity are pretty strongly predictive of your religious affiliation.
Liam Long
Maybe, it's religion that chooses you.
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Zachary Gray
Religious affiliation.. yes.
Religion itself.. no.
Lucas Adams
may choose to identify as religious youtube.com
Noah Sanchez
a tumor in the brain might make you a pedophile youtube.com
Gavin Martin
I sure hope so. It feels like a totally submissive choice so I keep putting it off, should get there one day.
Bentley Barnes
I've heard it said that values are picked out of sentimentality, rather than reason. I suspect religion is not a choice, but instead something that comes to you by confirming and legitimizing previously existing sentiment.
Jace Taylor
When you learn religion as a child from your parents, no it's not. Usually around adolescence and adulthood people will be skeptical of it, but ultimately end up religious or non-religious, unless they're pretty anal about religion, like people in the midwest or deep south.
Elijah Cruz
It becomes a choice, yes. It doesn't necessarily start out as a choice, but a filial duty.
Aiden Edwards
The only real choice
Leo Roberts
like choosing to worship santa claus or not
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Kayden Brown
Well, depending on what religion you choose or you don't choose you'll get after you die either:
>nothing
>something good
>something bad
Pascal's wager is correct in that sense that you're better off with a religion than without one
Isaac Miller
Pascal was playing the lottery with it as expected by a mathematician, and Darwin came a century later to explain evolution, BTW life goes on after you die so your heritage and legacy matter the most.
Carson Smith
Unless we imagine a deity that punished those who follow an established religion. There's no reason to take his existence any lighter.
Jordan Morales
>t. Retard who thinks the last 35 years of history is like any other time
Benjamin Howard
>life goes on after you die
>heritage and legacy matter the most
But that exactly implies that your "heritage and legacy" in fact doesn't matter because life would go on regardless
Wyatt Perry
I'm not saying that you should stick with one specific religion like Pascal proposed with Christianity but that any religion has a higher chance at "paying off" than no religion
Sebastian Hernandez
It isn't
Aiden Roberts
retard
Jacob Martinez
life as in human life (maybe), and what many may call natural / animal life / human life . For legacy and heritage to matter there has to be a human brain that wants it, that´s why it matters to some other human alive.
John Clark
It can be.Most people are indoctrinated when they're too young to make an informed choice, tho.
Landon Barnes
Why? He made sense
Nicholas Cooper
OP asked:
>Is religion a choice?
Said retard then chose to speak about religious affiliation instead
John Howard
Nope, real Christian faith is the result of irresistible God's grace, you don't have a say in it.
Lincoln Moore
>autism
They're the same thing the vast majority of the time you autist. That was the point.
Mason Anderson
Fucking autist deleting posts. Refer to here now instead:
Christian Williams
this thread has nothing to do with religion
this thread is about determinism vs free will
spoiler: determinism loses
Ian Walker
>muh magic
Fuck off.