[Proteus]

Originally Posted by ninty

Some people don't like change. If you challenge a lot of people with facts, no matter how factual and obvious they are to us, they can still reject them. See intelligent design. Religion is impossible to disprove because it's all based on faith, which is what makes it so easy for people to believe in.

I believe a lot of people are basically brainwashed into their religion, and that many people do believe they will go to heaven and all that. Their belief system is a way of life for them.

That being said I was raised catholic and went to a catholic school for 13 years and i basically call myself an atheist now.

Once again, though, they may be brainwashed and truely believe it but it just means a harsher realization when they're on their deathbed.

When people tell them the facts and everything, they reject it, but it's still there. It's a whole what-if thing that they'll have to deal with sooner or later... just sooner the better IMO.

Athiest? I never got that. That means you don't believe in a religion, you just think you die and go into the earth?