| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["religion","god"],"appCategory":"religion","appTitle":"Why do people believe in God?","appBody":"<p>The short answer is that because they've been indoctrinated to believe in God since they were children. Then why does belief in gods exist in the first place? It exists because humans seem to have believed in the existence of a spirit world since the dawn of the species. The human mind has a tendency to personify things and phenomena, that is, to ascribe intentions to complex phenomena that seem to have minds of their own that are seemingly impossible to explain otherwise. Think how dauntingly inexplicable in any kind of mechanistic way much of the world must have seemed to prehistoric humans. To even attempt a mechanistic explanation based on cause and effect required a leap in philosophical thought. People believe in gods because that is the default position that arises from the how the human mind works. </p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"f3pzjwz9x","appParentAuthor":"kid4life","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
|---|
hiveblocks