I'm thinking you must think of atheism as something fairly complex if you think there's a psychology of it.
You seem to think the god idea is universally & eternally relevant. Mightn't it just die out in some cultures as ideas do?
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it might. But they doesn't make it true or false. And it doesn't make God belief good or bad. It's irrelevant.
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Exactly. That's what I mean. No values to it so how can there be psychology to it?
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This is what post-theistic societies are like. The idea is irrelevant. It cld become relevant again later if eg immigration
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or if suppression of theistic intuitions and questions somehow fails
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If they get triggered again. Religious belief drops when psychological & social needs met by society. If they weren't...
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But again with 'suppression ' here you seem to be suggesting ideas of God can't just die out. They have to be squashed. Why?
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because I think belief in God is the default, natural state. You have to be trained out of it.
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Why? What abt ppl who just haven't been raised with God beliefs? Still have tendency to magical thinking, obv.
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I wonder if you yourself think a god is real & so have difficulty conceiving of the idea being irrelevant to some other ppl?
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I'm happy to think you find it irrelevant. Idk where you're getting this from.
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Your idea of a common psychology behind it.
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why can't both be true?
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How? How can something irrelevant to someone also have psychological significance? Wldnt it have to be present in psyche?
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this is where self-reported irrelevance must be taken with a grain of salt in science. Just like we reject theological ideas.
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Ppl aren't reporting it coz its not relevant. They just go through life without engaging with ideas abt god.
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