If people were not brainwashed from birth to believe in their given religion?

Question

What % of the population do you think would have no religion?

Great answers so far....thanks!

Answer 1

It depends on the time. If you're talking about now, then there would be no religious people. Because science has logical answers to a lot of questions religion supposedly answers. But if it were a hundred years ago then there would still be religious people because religion was created to answer questions people didn't have explanations for.

Answer 2

I donno. A lot of people who weren't raised a certain religion find their own later on. Just the same, some people who were raised as a religion change it when they're older. I was raised a Christian going to church all the time, sunday school, other church functions. My old bestfriend's dad was a pastor at the church I and my family attended. However, once I was about 10, I didn't really believe any of it. I went about a year or 2 being Atheist. Then I started looking into some of the other ones. When I was 13 I started practicing Wicca. I wasn't one of those people who just woke up one day and was like "I'm a Wiccan." I studied it for over a year and learned as much as I could before I called myself a Wiccan. Then after about 2 years or so I realized that it wasn't really fitting me at that time and I came to the realization that i'm naturally just an Agnostic. There might be a god, there might not be. There might be multiple gods, or even goddesses. Just the same, we might be all on our own. I think it's best just not to keep digging into it. Just live your life and we'll all learn the truth when we're dead. Whatever happens, happens.

It's just a matter of how badly they are "brainwashed". I am a natural skeptic so I think that helped my case.

Some people have their own set of beliefs that don't fit a religion either.

A friend I used to have used to not really believe in a specific god but believed in reincarnation and put it this way, "I think that when we die we just all go to this place and play a big game of poker and if you get a really bad hand, you come back as an ant or something."

Answer 3

Religion is part of man because we are created in God's image so we naturally seek for "something". This has been proven beyond question by the fact that no matter where you go in the world, no matter how primitive the people, they have some form of religion.

That's not the result of brainwashing, it's just what's natural.

Answer 4

We must be taught what is not natural, so ancient generation would have had to been thought.
So aliens came and thought us and gave us God and the bible to live by, a set of laws, but humans had to have been taught this.

So 0% would have a religion and the world as we know it would not exist, which I assume would be for the better

Answer 5

well, a situation like that would probably totally change the definition of religion, and there would probably be more types of religion as people would have their own self-created reasons for everything to be the way it is. Maybe.

Answer 6

I became a Christian at the age of 32, before that I didnt know how wonderful Jesus is and what a wonderful and loving Saviour we have. Also my husband was 38 when he became a Christian, giving his life to Jesus was the best decision he ever made in his life. The only regret we both have is that we didn't know Jesus sooner.

Answer 7

Humans are worshippers by nature.Even the so-called atheists have a degree of believing in some sort of higher power/fate,it may not be God/Gods we know.

Answer 8

why do u think peeps r brainwashed I was not raised in a christian home I was 31 when I was saved.

Answer 9

several. several are not.

millions have no declared religion.

Answer 10

80% why? look around you..look at all the sin...