Not broken but brainwashed since babies, few of us have the courage to say "boy, was I fed up with a lot of bullshit" usually those of us with an intriguing and iconoclastic mindset.

You are probably going to get better information if you ask believers instead of nonbelievers.

I would say that those who go extreme religious are generally poor people. People who are rich and religious are more inclined to be Sunday believers. It doesn't mean they don't genuinely believe in God but they seem to pull off hypocrisy better than others.

People want something to believe in. Because they're too frightened or conditioned to believe in themselves or life as it is.There is some comfort in living this way.

I think the more science minded and logical based your reasoning becomes - the less you are apt to believe in religion.

However I also know some folks who are very artsy who are atheists! There will always be exceptions to every rule and subsets to every group.

I just want to know how we make MORE of us? lol

Interesting. What are the criteria for being ‘broken’ ’being messed up’ or not messed up?

I think fear plays a big part. That and plain old ignorance.

I think rich people see God as the spiritual dimension of Maslow's self-actualisation. I'm told it came in with Protestantism and is now most obvious in the prosperity gospel. They must mean he brought it into relatively recent Western thinking because there must have been people like that since forever.

From all the humans I've been exposed to over time, my conclusion is, that there is no rhyme, reason, logic, or predictability about who ends up doin' the worship thing, and who doesn't . I give up !