# Believers: Why are you so sure of your beliefs?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 21, 2010, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/believers-why-are-you-so-sure-of-your-beliefs/543965 "2010-06-21T07:47:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/believers-why-are-you-so-sure-of-your-beliefs/543965/172 "2010-06-29T17:49:10Z")

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> [@Bearflag70](#):
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> My hunch is that people make these choices to believe because (1) it feels good to believe something over nothing; (2) it’s what their culture has taught them to believe; and/or (3) uncertainty, question, and doubt makes people uncomfortable or fearful.

Your post has nothing to do with the topic of this thread.

However, you may be right in assuming that many people believe because they were taught to believe, or they are afraid not to believe less something bad happen to them, etc. But that doesn’t mean there is nothing to believe in. It doesn’t mean the world is a random accident, and life is an accident. No it doesn’t.

Most on this board were taught to believe in science, taught that nothing supernatural or spiritual exists, but that teaching is not based on proof or an understanding of the whole universe.

Let me ask, If you discovered today that the universe was created by intelligence, how would that change your life?

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