>>51329075when I said default I didn't mean the 'natural' or 'initial' belief system, I meant default in the same way the default state when you start a videogame is level 1 and you add additional levels to it. The default position is 'I don't know' then you add additional beliefs/claims to it.Atheism is the default position because being religious requires adding an additional claim onto a negative/absence of belief.
Also the fact that humans started out woth spiritual beliefs and these have persisted means nothing about the actual truth/validity of these beliefs, just that they are naturally occuring for some reason (maybe it was beneficial for survival, maybe being an early human that doesn't understand anything means you naturally think natural forces are living deities). By your logic, since polytheism and animal worship predate the abrahamic religions, these must be more correct since they are more 'natural' somehow.
>>51329125Jesus historically existing doesn't prove he was god/the son of god, that any of the prophecies or bible stories are true or that any of your specific idiosyncratic beliefs are true. It just means some guy called Jesus existed and got executed and that a religion formed around this random guy the same way all cults/religions form around random guys.
>the universe once just popped into existencethere's various different cosmological theories about how the universe began/has always existed, not just 'it popped out of nothing' - but also this changes nothing because I can just turn around and ask you: where did god pop out of of? oh, he was always there? Why can't the universe/reality have always just been there then?
