Why Atheists Are Becoming Theists

Are we born believing in God? Why are atheists becoming theists?

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[Nitopayiw]

I’m happy this video reached the right audience to handle these lies 💀

[beanbean]

Ive never watched such a dishonest video, and judging by the comments, this video didnt hit its intended audience lol.

[greenjacket]

When I was little I was obsessed with science. The idea of there being a god was not an idea I ever thought of. It was when I began to go to communities with a lot of religious people that my impressionable brain was told I’d burn in hell for all eternity because I had grown up enjoying evil science rather than god. I had converted for a brief period after that, because I was fear mongered during a time in my life where I was liable to believe everything, and promptly base my life around that. We grow to believe whatever surrounds us. We aren’t born believing in anything.

[SoytanTALKS]

I used to be an atheist. I was wrong. The Flying Spaghetti Monster boiled for our sins. R'amen 🍝🙏

[drewsteenrod]

Was a fully devout Pentacostal Christian who believed everything I must do is for God. Went to Afghanistan and back twice. Opening my eyes to the truth that if there Was a Loving God, he died long ago.

[liberalinoklahoma]

Religion is everything religion warns you about .

[Reituco]

I was born an atheist

became a “Christian” that learned churches were boring

became an atheist again and I’m happier than ever

[liberalinoklahoma]

We come into this world as a blank sheet of paper, then we are soaked into whatever religious beliefs our family and friends practice, regardless of any solid evidence for such beliefs .

[ryanmackenzie]

I dont care enough to watch the video and I dont care if it's brought up; but friendly reminder that athiests tend to be generally good people, despite what most christians think, as we dont need the threat of the bible to keep us in check. We actually want to do good for our fellow man, without having to be told to do so. If you need to be threatened with eternal hell to be decent to your peers, you might want to look more into Jesus's teachings. The Athiests might be following his word more closely than you are.

[loganharvill]

In the words of Aron ra “we are born atheist until someone lies to us”

[pumpkinspice]

As a kid, I was Catholic, I would always pray at night and what not. You know why? I was in a catholic school. What a shocker, was that the second I left the school, entering grade 7, I became an atheist. I slowly thought religion was actually doing nothing for me and in fact, I didn’t really believe in it (but I respect other people who do). It’s school and adults that make kids religious

Edit: I didn't expect so much debating in the comments ⊙_⊙

[aggohyf]

Given the fact that I hadn’t heard of god till I was 5 and upon having it explained to me my immediate thought was “that just sounds silly.” I can say with great confidence regarding the question in the thumbnail, absolutely not.

[Max_Doubt]

First we hear that there are an "ever increasing" number of nonbelievers. Then that people are inherently drawn to religion. Then why are so many people ditching their theism or refusing to join a faith at all? If you actually listen to their stories, a common theme emerges: "I learned too much." And the WWWeb is really an amazing tool for learning; learning why religions are probably all man made.

[ethanhiggins]

As an agnostic existentialist, morality is made by my and other people’s view on morality.

The fact that “you shall not murder” is written within the Bible doesn’t mean that without god and the Bible that murdering is not suddenly a neutral, non-punishable act.

All of us would hate if someone that was close to us were killed and that alone makes murdering unjust and immoral.

And does that mean it’s moral to get my revenge?

No because all people have the same amount of free will that I have and I have no authority over some else’s life.

[romanmaksimovich]

So, we are supposed to take children's ideas of intelligent design as evidence of god? Like children, whose brains are literally undeveloped, never get anything wrong? The fact that religion may be intuitive speaks not for it, but against, since it becomes a comfort zone, a status quo that is easier to accept instead of taking the question of the origin of the universe seriously like scientists did.

[SuperAsefasef]

Reminder that the number of atheist agnostics and non religious people is growing steadily and makes up about 30 percent of the us population now.

[ajrollo]

I'm an atheist who became a theist. I assure you that it was IN SPITE OF Christians. If you want to spread the good a GOOD word once in a while.

[helifynoe]

I asked several people if they thought that their specific religion was the right religion, and that this was their personal decision. They all said, YES. I then said, "Don't you think it is odd that your parents also just happen to be of the very same religion !". Their faces turned red with anger, and some walked away.

[ateriana]

1:37 God has absolutely no explanatory value. It's no different than an alien conspiracy theory.
Of course you have no idea what atheism is. Atheism is simply not believing that "god did it" is an explanation for anything, especially considering that how god did something is never even mentioned.

"if atheism were true there would be no objective morality everything would be mere opinion but if there is a God then objective morality" -Gospel
The mere fact that people don't agree on morals already shows that morals aren't objective. If morals were objective, then they wouldn't come from a god, as that would make the morals subjective again.

Not every culture has a religion, and even those who do, don't necessarily have a god. Monotheistic religions are quite recent. The first religions worshipped nature, from there they started making idols, which became gods, which was later reduced to one god in some religions. Also, believing in something does not make it true. People also believed in a flat earth, some still do, even though it's not even remotely true.

3:53 Read the study. It bascially says that people are more likely to believe their intuition, even when it's wrong.

It also concluded that morals come from the community.
"Additionally, many of the specific moral intuitions held by members of a society appear to be the consequence, not of personal moral contemplation, but of deference to the views of the community." -Childhood origins of adult resistance to science

And here is the conclusion.
"These developmental data suggest that resistance to science will arise in children when scientific claims clash with early emerging, intuitive expectations. This resistance will persist through adulthood if the scientific claims are contested within a society, and it will be especially strong if there is a nonscientific alternative that is rooted in common sense and championed by people who are thought of as reliable and trustworthy. This is the current situation in the United States, with regard to the central tenets of neuroscience and evolutionary biology. These concepts clash with intuitive beliefs about the immaterial nature of the soul and the purposeful design of humans and other animals, and (in the United States) these beliefs are particularly likely to be endorsed and transmitted by trusted religious and political authorities. Hence, these
fields are among the domains where Americans’ resistance to science is the strongest." -Childhood origins of adult resistance to science

I didn't read the other studies, but it's likely they have a similar conclusion. Even when people tend to intuitively believe in a creator, it is in no way evidence for a creator. Just like people intuitively believe in a flat stationary Earth, even though Earth is a globe.

6:56 Once again god has absolutely no explanatory value as we can't even show that god even exists.

7:30 Adding "atheistic evolutionary" shows that you are dishonest.

8:39 "Atheism would never have predicted that humans would be". What bullshit claim is this? Absolutely no one could have predicted the existence of humans. Humans were only known about after they existed. Religion doesn't predict or explain anything, while evolution explains how humans evolved. Of course evolution can't predict what humans are going to evolve into, but it can trace the evolutionary path backwards in time.

Religion doesn't do anything other than claiming "god did it".

[liberalinoklahoma]

Religion started when the first con man met the first fool .