Hi

I don't agree with the statement that we "inherit some degree to
predisposition for spirituality or religiosity" I think we are all
born as a blank canvass and it is to what circumstances we are born
that can have an affect on what we believe/don't believe.



--- In atheismuk2@..., "pourrientui" <pourrientui@h...>
wrote:
> Just found this, poking around online for non-theistic sites. I'm
> not what you might call an atheist, and I'm not in the UK. Born
and
> still in Massachusetts, but love how the internet allows global
> community.
>
> My current best understanding of the faith phenom is that we are
> stuck with it. It appears that we all inherit some degree of pre-
> disposition for "spirituality" or "religiosity", or something to
> that effect that I haven't found a better term for yet. It makes
> abundent sense that this inheritable ability evolved. It seems
> reasonable that our various cultures have taken this ability and
> evolved all the various adaptation of it, all our myriad of
faiths.
> In my view, they were just doing the best they could with the
> information they had at the time. I don't see them devolving
> anytime soon.
>
> Over time, I expect scientific understanding will out-compete all
> these other theories (faiths).