Is religion a choice?

>>1660984

More often than not it isn't. Your geographic birthplace and ethnicity are pretty strongly predictive of your religious affiliation.

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>>1660984
Maybe, it's religion that chooses you.
http://www.sermonaudio.com/playpopup.asp?SID=616151847250

>>1660984
Religious affiliation.. yes.

Religion itself.. no.

may choose to identify as religious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCGtkDzELAI

>>1661172
a tumor in the brain might make you a pedophile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KETTtiprINU

I sure hope so. It feels like a totally submissive choice so I keep putting it off, should get there one day.

I've heard it said that values are picked out of sentimentality, rather than reason. I suspect religion is not a choice, but instead something that comes to you by confirming and legitimizing previously existing sentiment.

When you learn religion as a child from your parents, no it's not. Usually around adolescence and adulthood people will be skeptical of it, but ultimately end up religious or non-religious, unless they're pretty anal about religion, like people in the midwest or deep south.

>>1660984
It becomes a choice, yes. It doesn't necessarily start out as a choice, but a filial duty.

>>1660984
The only real choice

>>1663464
like choosing to worship santa claus or not
ghosts
dracula
aliens
zombies
horoscope
etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r70HsEvNRck

>>1663787
Well, depending on what religion you choose or you don't choose you'll get after you die either:
>nothing
>something good
>something bad
Pascal's wager is correct in that sense that you're better off with a religion than without one

>>1664192
Pascal was playing the lottery with it as expected by a mathematician, and Darwin came a century later to explain evolution, BTW life goes on after you die so your heritage and legacy matter the most.

>>1664192
Unless we imagine a deity that punished those who follow an established religion. There's no reason to take his existence any lighter.

>>1663446
>t. Retard who thinks the last 35 years of history is like any other time

>>1664404
>life goes on after you die
>heritage and legacy matter the most
But that exactly implies that your "heritage and legacy" in fact doesn't matter because life would go on regardless

>>1664410
I'm not saying that you should stick with one specific religion like Pascal proposed with Christianity but that any religion has a higher chance at "paying off" than no religion

It isn't

>>1660996
retard

>>1664477
life as in human life (maybe), and what many may call natural / animal life / human life . For legacy and heritage to matter there has to be a human brain that wants it, that´s why it matters to some other human alive.

>>1660984

It can be.Most people are indoctrinated when they're too young to make an informed choice, tho.

>>1664527
Why? He made sense

>>1664647
OP asked:
>Is religion a choice?
Said retard then chose to speak about religious affiliation instead

>>1660984
Nope, real Christian faith is the result of irresistible God's grace, you don't have a say in it.

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>>1664659

>autism

They're the same thing the vast majority of the time you autist. That was the point.

>>1664685

Fucking autist deleting posts. Refer to here now instead:

>>1664671

this thread has nothing to do with religion

this thread is about determinism vs free will

spoiler: determinism loses

>>1664730

>muh magic

Fuck off.