Jo—I think you will be surprised to find out that many of your co-religionists are, actually, in pretty much the same boat and don’t ‘really’ believe 90% of the stuff they parrot (eg who really believes Exodus:12:29-30 nowadays?)
What people do have is a general feeling that there is a God(s) (seems to be almost hardwired in Human brains, and hard to overcome), and a liking for the companionship and structure that a religion brings.
Belief in Belief, as Dennett calls it in ‘Breaking the Spell’, which is good book to read..
Jo—I think you will be surprised to find out that many of your co-religionists are, actually, in pretty much the same boat and don’t ‘really’ believe 90% of the stuff they parrot (eg who really believes Exodus:12:29-30 nowadays?)
What people do have is a general feeling that there is a God(s) (seems to be almost hardwired in Human brains, and hard to overcome), and a liking for the companionship and structure that a religion brings.
Belief in Belief, as Dennett calls it in ‘Breaking the Spell’, which is good book to read..