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Originally Posted by Robbie
And we all grew up watching our parents, grandparents, and the rest of our family "believing" in it. So we were conditioned from birth.
It's no wonder that even intelligent people take pause and go "I wonder if it's really true". It's hard to overcome that kind of brainwashing.
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Until I was 5 or 6 years old I had no idea what religion I was born into, there was no religion mentioned in my house yet by the time I was 4 years old and aware of the world around me I knew God and had my own conception of him. Where did I get it from? Television and movies, every morning I'd wake up to watch the early morning cartoons, sitting in front of the TV in the dark long before TV had 24 hour a day programming - the national anthem would come on followed by a minister or priest with a 5 minute show/sermon talking about God and Jesus. Must be true, they wouldn't put him on TV if he was a liar. Then part of the morning cartoon show I watched religiously was a stop animation show called 'Davey and Goliath', produced by the same company that made 'Gumby and Pokey', it was about a little boy and his dog Goliath. I had no idea that show was funded by a Christian organization. Every episode was some life lesson the boy would find out came from Jesus and the Bible. When I'd sneeze my mother would say 'God bless you', I'd hear other adults say things like 'God dammit' 'God willing' 'I hope to God' etc - it's everywhere in our culture, whether your parents are religious or not a kid is going to have some belief in this person/thing named God very early in life. And it's very hard to shake - I bet the majority of agnostics and atheists when they or a loved one is facing death say some kind of prayer to God out of fear and desperation. Most wouldn't admit it.