true that. stringing people up because they believe differently is a no-no.
being an atheist is being opposed/ at war against religious people , this is the funny part of the whole thing.
And trying to convince religious people that they are morons, insulting them is doing exactly to them what they did to atheists. The never ending circle.
Fact is atheists are believers. They believe in science, and often in hedonism, materialism and a patchwork of philosophical (epicurian most of the time) psychological and psychanalatical principles they ve been exposed to randomly thru their life and contacts. Most of them cannot sustain a couple for life, often divorce, often sink into different kind of addictions, neglect their kids, are on anti depressants and are the ones injecting steroids, getting boob jobs and plastic surgery. To each his own religion right?
Human psychism is always based, built mainly on
-The core beliefs of the mother
-The beliefs of the father then other family members which add and reinforce themselves to the original, fundamental ones coming from the mother and shape a more developed and balanced system of beliefs
-The beliefs and influences of the surrounding world / environment (friends, tv internet), which are themselves filtered by the initial core system of values learned from the main caregivers during childhood and adolescence
Basically what you think is what your memory and brain have stocked subconsciously since birth -and before-. Our brains contain thoughts, impulses, tendances, that go far beyond what we ve consciously learn. Basically there are patterns we re following that come from our grand parents , grand grand parents etc etc and so on and are stocked in our subconscious. Hence the repetition of patterns.
When parents are separated, there are various versions, beliefs, influences on key topics that fight each others constantly, no unity in the development of a kid's psychism, basically the conscious and subconscious beliefs in conflict of his genitors/main caregivers are stuck in his/her head forever. These kids and then adults often have low natural serotonin and dopamin levels in the brain and are pessimistic and cynical. Your consciousness and your subconsciousness are the sum of the subconscious and conscious of the people you ve been raised by mainly, and the people you met and interacted with. But the core of your consciousness and subconscious are preprogrammed by what your mother, family told you, and by what you inherited genetically and has been selected by evolution. We all follow predetermined patterns which are engraved in our brains. We have no other purpose but to follow these patterns and perpetuate them. Some will say it makes no sense, some will tell you that it's an opportunity to be happy or sad, to "feel".
People raised by caring parents who stayed together are happier, are designed by genetics and conditionnings to develop higher natural level of serotonin and dopamin in the brain.
