So when science convinces everyone that certain people are just born to believe in God with a particular gene?

Question

Does that mean that others would be viewed as being bigots to make fun of them, like its bigoted to make fun of different races and g**s?

Will it still be ok to mock them if they are born with it?

Serious question.

Answer 1

What the?

Answer 2

They may find a gene that makes certain people more LIKELY to believe in the supernatural, but people don't believe the way they do simply because they were born that way.

It was drilled into their heads at young ages

There may be a gene that would make people less likely to question religion, but it is not as simple as that.

So it is always acceptable to criticize religious beliefs.  And people who hold them are fair game for scrutiny.

Answer 3

Your question presupposes that science can or will ever have even a shred of proof that certain people are born to believe in God or anything else.  Yawn, I hope you weren't trying to be philosophical or profound because you failed, if you were simply trying for levity then you succeeded. .

Answer 4

I think that your assumption is way off, where are your sources.

Answer 5

NO matter our genetics people are not robots.  The whole idea of faith in God is based on a choice, a choice that anyone can make.  Even people like you who have chosen prejudice and intolerance over love and respect, it is still your choice.  I encourage you to change your choice, choose love and respect.

Answer 6

Belief in religion is such a complex thought system that there is no way that there is just a gene that makes people religious. After all I know people who were Christians and now they are atheists. Did they're genes change and now suddenly they don't believe in God. I also know of people who were agnostic and became Christians. Religion is a choice, you choose to believe something personally, or you were basically brainwashed when you were a kid. This isn't something that's genetic.

Answer 7

I appreciate you are "serious" about your question, but to insist that others take your question seriously is unrealistic.

Take a moment to consider the fact that genes are physical and ones Spirituality is not physical at all.  Ones Spiritual Core is ones Soul, and between that and ones physical body is ones MIND realm.

If one is alive, one has a Soul within ones body.  When ones Soul leaves the body, the body dies.  To awaken to ones Spiritual Core requires one to have achieved a rather high level of elevation on the ladder of Life. To have lived many, many lifetimes in other words.

Each life provides one some level of Karmic growth, and as these Karmas are completed  they are converted into Knowledge and it is this Knowledge that elevates  or adds to ones Spiritual evolution. When a certain point is achieved relative to ones Spiritual evolution, one begins to awaken to the Spirituality within oneself.

Such Knowledge has nothing to do with what people say, think, or imagine.  Such Knowledge is of a level of Reality that the brain cannot perceive.  So those who are awakened to the Spirituality within themselves are detaching from people and the physical plane.

Peace

Answer 8

Your question suggests that it's ok to mock people. I can't agree with that.

EDIT:

Ok, good.

Answer 9

No-one ever said that you're genetically programmed to believe in a CERTAIN god. What they've said is that they've found a gene they believe is linked to the kind of thinking that would lead a person to be more likely to accept a religion (whatever religion they're most exposed to, most likely) than others.

And personally I try not to make fun of people just for believing a religion; I make fun of the bigots and the idiots, usually the extremists in the religion.

Answer 10

It would probably be a combination of genes and influenced heavily by nurture.

I think it would give people a more nuanced reason to believe; faith alone no longer cuts it anymore, and experience and thinking would be more commonly used. "I am a Christian because my prayers have been consistently answered and I feel at peace when I pray." Not "God is GOD END of STORY."

However, if most people have it, then it's likely not even going to be an issue. I mean, the majority of the US is white, but it's not like they get razzed for it.

Answer 11

No, you must conform lest we mock you for mocking the reality challenged.