What is the psychology behind someone believing in Christianity even when there is a mountain of evidence disproving it?

Realistically, if you were to delve into "why do people believe things" regardless of the exact nature of those beliefs, the answer is almost always down to how someone was raised, paired with subsequent life experiences that push them in the direction of their current structure of belief. It can be as simple as being raised muslim, and thus it is ingrained in you from birth, and is unlikely to ever change regardless of any (usually limited in the context of islam) introspection and eventual questioning of that belief. It can be as complex or varied as.. I don't know, a bad trip where you go in unbelieving and see god, coming out as some sudden believer in a higher power.

The human mind, whether you are a man of faith or not, tends to want to explain things, and usually a belief structure does the heavy lifting for the harder aspects, at least on a surface level. For some it can be as surface level as "god did it, simple as", and for others every small little thing is explained both in empirical reality and religious scripture, in this sort of ever wavering dance. Without this compulsion to explain things being filled, certain aspects of the human experience can drive one to despair, depression, or some disassociation from society. (Which, the societal aspect is a HUGE factor to be considered as well, but I'd rather not write more)

Naturally the human mind will look for a short hand to answer complex questions, whether that's based on science, scripture, or the classic "I made it the fuck up". You could go into each belief and the similarities between ones that originated differently and still find a common thread that is just part of humans attempting to explain and cope with the reality they perceive. A good example of a non religious belief in this context would be in Alien abduction vs. Witches. For whatever reason, its common for the similar "paralyzed and something is watching/whatever" experience to be perceived differently based on the culture of origin, and as time has gone on the places that saw these experiences as witches have slowly started perceiving it instead as aliens, as the dominant culture is more likely to logically conclude those exist over witches. Commonalities between folk tales and the beliefs informing them, despite continents or oceans worth of distances between is just an example of the human mind focusing on similar shit and finding patterns.

I feel like anyone who's ever thought rationally about belief as a concept wouldn't find it all that mystifying, believer or not.
 
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I asked my mom once why she didn't raise us catholic. She said she stopped believing in god the same time she stopped believing in Santa Claus, and didn't want to imprint any such beliefs on me. She succeeded, I have no beliefs. In anything. She wanted me to find my own way, but I found no way.

So I get why people believe. I just wish it wasn't such an absurd thing that if you look at it from the outside you see how ridiculous the myths and rituals are. I just can't participate in it without laughing my ass off.
 
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The simple answer is that any kind of counter-evidence will just be understood as a test from God by the faithful, and they will cling to their faith even harder. Smarter religious people can hold a cognitive dissonance in their mind, and work on any of the sciences while keeping their total faith consistent, but dumber ones will react by relying on an industry of grifters and some genuine believers who try to fit in the counter evidence with a narrative that fits the Bible/Koran.

This is not to say the sciences are free of problems or similar kinds of faith, to be clear, even "hard sciences" have a large amount of people who rely on a consensus they were taught religiously and will do retarded shit and eliminate great people to ensure either their ideology or their politics is the filter that any consensus in the field must go through.
 
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We are witnessing a pillowfucker weeb atheist.

This is like The Man from 1996 in South Park.

This creature is a relic of another time.

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Male Idiot said:
Of course you'll be laughed out of here like a dirty round earther, fundies and feminists infested this site just as chuds and polchads did, as this is like the only site where you can say what you want.
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Women shit talking men isn't exclusive to feminism no more than men shit talking women is exclusive to misogynists.
 
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It's true that militant atheists from the 2000s were embarrassing and smug. Their criticism of religion was often based on assumptions that religious people didn't agree with in the first place, so it wasn't effective. They approached it from a place of talking down to people they considered stupid rather than putting themselves in the shoes of the so-called religious idiots. For that, these atheists deserved to be criticized and made fun of.

But that doesn't mean they were totally wrong about everything, and it's weird to see how the pendulum is swinging back so hard that people have gone from being retarded against religion to being retarded for religion.

"Science relies on faith too" Yeah, but it doesn't mean that the amount of faith a scientist needs to have is the same. We can't ever be 100% certain about everything, but it doesn't mean we can't come to the conclusion that some things are more probable than others.
 
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Lowlife Adventures said:
It's true that militant atheists from the 2000s were embarrassing and smug. Their criticism of religion was often based on assumptions that religious people didn't agree with in the first place, so it wasn't effective. They approached it from a place of talking down to people they considered stupid rather than putting themselves in the shoes of the so-called religious idiots. For that, these atheists deserved to be criticized and made fun of.

But that doesn't mean they were totally wrong about everything, and it's weird to see how the pendulum is swinging back so hard that people have gone from being retarded against religion to being retarded for religion.

"Science relies on faith too" Yeah, but it doesn't mean that the amount of faith a scientist needs to have is the same. We can't ever be 100% certain about everything, but it doesn't mean we can't come to the conclusion that some things are more probable than others.
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What are you some heccinerino (((Science))) cultist redditor?
 
Because people don't want to do their own research and get spoonfed the same Jewish pap their grandparents were fed. That's where you end up with the dumb dichotomy of "you have to be a Christian or be an atheist" which both lead to Jewish psyops like (((Jesus))) or (((Karl Marx))) or (((Ayn Rand))). Both are best seen as religions in competition.

It takes a bold mind to look beyond this nonsensical divide and realize that the universe and spirituality are intertwined and cannot be constrained by nonsense like a long-dead rabbi being the supreme god or the so-called "scientific method" and whatever shite credentialed experts are spewing. Most people don't have that, so they let other people do the thinking for them. Redditors trust their science journalists, Christians trust their preacher.
 
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gamerweeb1 said:

What is the psychology behind someone believing in Christianity even when there is a mountain of evidence disproving it?​

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Jesus personally appears before all of us true believers in a flash of pure holy light to confirm that he is, in fact, real.
In 100% of these cases Jesus then precedes to inform us believers that he and literally everyone who has ever died knows our full internet search history.
Jesus will then divulge to the faithful that whenever anyone dies and goes to heaven they are mocked for all eternity about the fucked up retard shit they’ve jacked off to in life.
Just so you know, this is the true and honest deep lore for why us Christians warn you not to watch porn or jack off.

I can not stress this enough: NEVER, under ANY circumstance, EVER masturbate; Jesus is literally watching you.
Jesus and his homies spend all of their free time (you know, when they aren’t busy floating around heaven being all magnificent and shit) thinking up blisteringly sick burns to harangue coomers with for all eternity.

You've been warned, sinners.
 
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I think anyone with a sound heart and a rational mind will be able to come to the conclusion that there is a Creator that made them for a purpose, and gave them signs to know him. Have you ever sincerely looked at awe at the beauty and majesty of nature? The complexity of the human body? Even the smallest cell has an amazing structure of a nucleus, proteins, mitochondria, how can all this come from nothing?

Imam Ahmad Ibn Muhammad al-Maqqari al-Tilimsani al-Andalusi (d. 1041/1631) writes in Kitab Nafh al-Tib:

Arabic:

قيل لأعرابي بم عرفت ربك فقال البعرة تدل على البعير والروث يدل على الحمير وآثار الأقدام تدل على المسير فسماء ذات أبراج وبحار ذات أمواج أما يدل ذلك على العليم القدير

Translation:

“A Bedouin was asked: how do you know your Lord exists? He replied: “Camel dung indicates camels, donkey dung indicates donkeys and footprints indicate travel. So the sky, with its constellations and the seas with its waves, do not these indicate the All-Knowing, the All-Powerful?”

These are just the proofs to establish the existence of a Creator, but what about our purpose? The chair was created for the purpose of being sat on, the car was created for the purpose of travel, and assuredly Humans were created for the purpose of worshiping Allah alone.


51:56
وَمَا خَلَقْتُ ٱلْجِنَّ وَٱلْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ ٥٦
And I (Allâh) created not the jinn and mankind except that they should worship Me (Alone).

51:57
مَآ أُرِيدُ مِنْهُم مِّن رِّزْقٍۢ وَمَآ أُرِيدُ أَن يُطْعِمُونِ ٥٧
I seek not any provision from them (i.e. provision for themselves or for My creatures) nor do I ask that they should feed Me (i.e. feed themselves or My creatures).

51:58
إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ ٱلرَّزَّاقُ ذُو ٱلْقُوَّةِ ٱلْمَتِينُ ٥٨
Verily, Allâh is the All-Provider, Owner of Power, the Most Strong.
— Al-Hilali & Khan
 
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