What is it? How does it define atheism in a way that has traits or values or behaviours that are psychological?
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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same story. It's not always the world pushing it out. Sometimes you're doing it yourself. People self-deceive a lot.
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This doesn't make any sense. Some ppl simply aren't taught to believe in gods & never look into the idea.
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