Would Tarzan believe in God? Conditions for the emergence of religious belief
I'm not really sure about my thoughts on this study yet, because it focuses mainly on religiosity and child psychological development. It suggests that belief in god, and religious beliefs in general...
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He's not Tarzan by any stretch of the imagination ... but my Gav was raised without religion and he's never had that compulsion or desire to believe in a god or gods, or to follow a religion of any...
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irreligious wrote: Though I don't doubt that cultural influence plays a pivotal role (especially in regards to complex religious beliefs), I think that cognitive biases, and evolutionary...
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I don't believe a child would ever latch onto an existing religion without influence. However, I do think the universal questions of "how did I get here" would linger and perhaps cause a child to...
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I once read about a people called the Piraha who have no concept of God at all and resisted all attempts by a missionary to convert them to Christianity. Eventually they turned the missionary (who...
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irreligious wrote:The Origins of Religious DisbeliefAra Norenzayan - Department of Psychology, University of British ColumbiaWill M. Gervais - Department of Psychology, University of Kent...Read More
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clunker1 wrote:It did occur to me when reading this, when they were saying that if religious belief is learned it gives rise to the question of initial generation..... Why not mental illness?...
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