Comments by "Be N S O N" (@Colddirector) on "Which Part of the Brain Makes People Religious?" video.

@LearningAndLiberating it reminds me of how some people who, rightly or otherwise, feel disenfranchised don’t really bother thinking about the future because they don’t think they have one.
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I honestly think I've always been predisposed against it. Even when I was nominally a believer, I don't think I ever had any genuine feelings for it and praying felt like writing a letter to a distant relative who never wrote back.
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@infinitemonkey917 or… get this… they might just think that joke is funny
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@josephposenecker9741 “religion” as a term is fuzzy at the best of times, but you’d have to stretch the definition of “religion” to its breaking point to say that atheists are religious.
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@UzairSayyid237 Honest question - why Islam, specifically?
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I honestly think that whatever processes induce religious and spiritual thinking for me are broken or at least underformed. I've always found religion to be a wierd and alien concept, and even when I was nominally a christian (mostly from culture and environment), trying to pray was like writing letters to a distant relative who never wrote back.
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@danielpaulson8838 The thing is - I’ve always been agreeable and as a kid I never questioned things much. Even as a teenager I was unusually nonrebellious, I had almost no interest in the underage drinking and partying going on, even with the adults all but egging me on to break those rules. Any true skepticism I have now was formed as an adult, well after I left the religion. It makes it all the more puzzling for me - like 90% of my personality was perfectly geared towards being a religious person but I lack the wiring required to actually have a spiritual life.
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I think the Bible condemns drunkenness instead of just drinking alcohol. You don't have to abstain entirely, just keep it in moderation. Also wine/beer back then was generally safer to drink than water, so it'd have been foolish to ban it outright.
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