Why in 2024 do people still believe in religion? (serious)

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All religion is untested made up nonsense, no exceptions.

If you make it up without evidence, it can be thrown out without evidence. Athiests make no claims, there's nothing to throw out.

The real answer to these questions is "we have no idea", everything else falls under russel's teapot.

Are you this arrogant in condemning everything you don’t understand?

If you truly believe “you have no idea,” then how can you be sure every religion is wrong without understanding them?

I do understand that it is something people made up without any evidence.

I am this arrogant about anything without evidence, if you present evidence, then I have a reason to believe.

Do you not believe in untested hypotheses or theorems? They are also made up without evidence.

The Big Bang itself has evidence, like the rapid expansion of the universe from the universal center in a state of decay toward entropy. According to the laws of physics, the masses that collided could not have spontaneously begun moving towards each other without force. Suggesting they began to move on their own without propulsion is just as made up as a creator pushing them.

I do not, why would I?

nobody asserts that, they assert that we don't know, which is accurate it is religion that asserts it happened through magic

So you don’t believe in any astrophysics? The cosmos is not repeatable phenomena.

Evidence exists for astrophysics

You may not understand science as well as you think you do. There is evidence that supports the theory, but it is untested until it is repeated in a controlled experiment. According to the scientific method, the vast majority of the field of astrophysics remains untested.

i don't assume the vast majority of astrophysics is true

neither do astrophysicists

I didn’t ask that. I asked if you believe in it. That’s all religion is; a belief.

be·lief noun

  1. an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.

"his belief in the value of hard work"

\2. trust, faith, or confidence in someone or something.

"I've still got belief in myself"

I don't believe in anything without evidence and if I do I seek to correct that

belief without evidence is a failure of the mind

So you don’t believe any of the untested theories of astrophysics?

This chain of comments is so painful to read. What in the world makes you think astrophysicists believe in anything that isn't tested? And why do you think we do?

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No neither do astrophysicists, they think it might be true with healthy skepticism

or they have proven it true with observation, neither of which applies to religion

are you confident you're not the arrogant one?

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