The Pharaoh, Exodus, God, and the Meme that started an argument

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(09-21-2016, 12:03 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: Faith is a choice, IMO. It is something that people choose to believe despite lack of evidence or even evidence to the contrary. There is growing evidence that we humans are 'pre-wired' to have this instinct as there are physical, emotional and mental benefits to having faith. It is generally something that helps us in life as individuals.

Is it?  I'd agree once we are "of age" but I didn't have a choice when I was a child.  I was taken to church, sent to Catholic school, etc.

So was my mother.  (My dad converted to marry her.)

So were her parents.

So were my kids. Although I did raise them to question things more than I was raised to. Both are non-religious. My daughter is pretty much straight up atheist at 18.

Yet now that I am older and a doubter those same religious people tell me I should have "faith" when they directly forced it into me to being with. (Not a pedophile priest joke.)