I recently watched the documentary Jesus Camp and got to thinking about how most christians come to belief in the faith starting when they are young. In my case, I was fully indoctrinated from Pre-K to 8th grade in my parochial school. As a child, with a certain naiveté about the world, I was hooked and thought that god was looking at everything I did and was going to judge me for it.
It wasn’t until I had a crisis of faith in my adult years that I began to really investigate my religion and realized that what I believed was incorrect and was man-made, not god-made.
Now, as an atheist, I can explain why I no longer believe in a god. However, I find that when I explain the contradictions and the historical record that led to the development of christianity and the canon (and to my atheism), most of the christians I know still believe even though they acknowledge the contradictions and incorrect statements in the bible.
Why does religious faith have such a grip on people?
2007-07-16
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