What makes you think that ‘reasoning yourself out of religion’ is attractive, desirable or a worthy goal?
I think for a lot of atheist converts it becomes hard to keep the alternate reality going, and so reasoning out of it becomes unavoidable. Some people are just raised atheist. Personally, I just like to know things even if it sucks.
Most religious people are not literalists.
I suspect that’s not actually true at a global level. In Africa many people are so literalist they’ll believe they’re bulletproof because a spell was cast. Even in the West there’s areas where I’m guessing most churchgoers believe funny things about natural history.
There are billions of religious people in the world. I understand that there are millions of examples of people who are literalist and dumb. Religion has a lot of pitfalls. But most religious people are navigating religion in a personal and open manner, avoiding those pitfalls and using the same examples to do so.
I think for a lot of atheist converts it becomes hard to keep the alternate reality going, and so reasoning out of it becomes unavoidable. Some people are just raised atheist. Personally, I just like to know things even if it sucks.
I suspect that’s not actually true at a global level. In Africa many people are so literalist they’ll believe they’re bulletproof because a spell was cast. Even in the West there’s areas where I’m guessing most churchgoers believe funny things about natural history.
There are billions of religious people in the world. I understand that there are millions of examples of people who are literalist and dumb. Religion has a lot of pitfalls. But most religious people are navigating religion in a personal and open manner, avoiding those pitfalls and using the same examples to do so.