Showroom7561, 1 year ago

No one is trying to make you or anyone else believe, they are just believing and doing their own thing

Unfortunately, that’s not true at all. Religions are designed to spread, like a virus.

They go door-to-door, stand on corners (with loudspeakers or just to give you flyers), they visit underdeveloped countries in missions to convert others, they use their power to influence laws related to reproduction and sexuality, they harm children (i.e. protect pedophiles within their congregation), they demonize and persecute gay people, and so on.

Organized religion, for several thousands of years, have started wars and killed countless people “in the name of god”.

And that’s only the major religions. If you get into smaller religions, then you’re talking about anything from harassment to mass suicide to child wives and beyond. Anything goes when “god is with you”.

OP was asking why people haven’t dropped religion. Since there is no proof of inexistence of the god, there is also no reason for people in 2024 to stop believing.

You can’t prove the non-existence of something… and it’s nobody’s job to prove that something does not exist.

To the OP: There’s a small book called “Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith Paperback” by J. Anderson Thomson and Clare Aukofer, which would be of interest. You can probably read it in an afternoon, but it’s insightful.