I was born in the U.S. and raised Jewish... Then again, I was born in New York City, where you're Jewish even if you're not Jewish.

I was born and reared in the US southern Christian bible belt. I have no religious faith.

well, i wasn't raised in an atheist community, nor even in a jewish community; i got beaten up and called names from early childhood for being jewish. so yeah, in a general sense location plays a role, but it obviously cannot take full credit.

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Yes. one of my pillars of disbelief. if religion were truly tenets by or rules from a deity, especially an omnipotent, omniscient deity, it would not have been introduced to what amounts to less than 2% of the earth's inhabitable crust and those indigenous to that crust. all religion is regional. religion if true (not a man made myth, spread by man,) would have certainly developed globally, no - universally, or the omniscient - isn't.

at least logically it makes sense to me for something that knows everything, the most practical choice for spreading the word it is not talking to one dude at a burning bush. or living and dying for my sins in jerusalem, from 0-30 something a.d. when i live in china, 0-30 something a.d. you're going to miss me when you cast that net. and you missed my chinese great, great, great, great, etc., pop-pop the eons prior with your flaming bush. i know, i know, mysterious ways... by the way, missed me again.

It is a known psychological fact that children accept the reality they are born in to, it is only later and by informed contemplation that they make changes to their minds, though a majority do not, because thinking takes too much effort and it is easier to simply conform.

It is the tendency, especially since the late 19th century when colonizers mostly stopped trying to inflict their religions on the conquered peoples.

My buddy told me that war is always about land. History is doomed to repeat itself if you don't know history. The definition of insanity is doing something over and ... ... ... ...