An Answer to the Question of Why Traditionally Religious People Become Atheists, Applicable to Some People

An Answer to the Question of Why Traditionally Religious People Become Atheists, Applicable to Some People 

We are born and grow up through the baby stages of nursing babblers (sucklings or sucklers), crawlers, toddlers and post-toddlers naturally not having a conception of magical divinity or such Gods and Goddesses or a solo God. At that earliest stage of our life and its development our learning is entirely mechanistic stimulus-and-response, action-reaction-interaction, situational, interactional and interpersonal reward-and-punishment feedback and correlated experiential and observational learning. Thereafter, our religious indoctrination and socialization training is that “the magic of” divinity or deities or the deity and other ghost beings “is the cause” of happenings and our and others' behavior, actions, experiences and destinies, with the deities or the deity being the prime or overriding agent of cause. However later in life, some of us determine on our own and others of us via our science education, or both, that inherent circumstantial and situational happenstance action-reaction and interaction cause and effect, and such cause-and-effect factors, are the default modus operandi of all of nature, our nature as organisms and complex human nature included, which can be figured out, sometimes shortly and sometimes over considerable time, and manipulated and give rise to the rules of all inventions, manipulation and production. In any engineer, scientist, inventor, medic, successful and enduring conqueror, military commander, ruler, helmsman or helmswoman, politician or merchant, etc., there is a mechanistic, atheistic frame of mind or thinking process in whole or situationally on the job. In other words, later in life, mostly during our adolescence or early adulthood, some of us default back to our objective reality pre-religious indoctrination and socialization mode of thinking or thinking process of figuring things out (innate human-augmented organismic objective, empirical thinking based on our objectively reasoned and attributed, vis a vis situationally natural feedback, cause-and-effect experiences, observations, experiments, [reality, truth, fact-determination] tests, etc.), but with a matured and more disciplined brain for normalized or systematic objective understanding.

To intellectual or philosophical atheists, there is no actual magic nor are there actual miracles sent to us from beyond the ultimately, or largely, explicable (through figuring things out, learning and knowledge) workings of nature, being the state, content and behavior of existence, or the state of being. Not even divinity, a fiction, and our fictional friends and enemies the deities and spirits (ghosts), all imaginative behavioral essences and informational identities, can theoretically, let alone, as an impossibility, actually, exist without or beyond existence and do anything without -- transcendent and pre-conditional to them and their thus oxymoronic omnipotence or almighty power -- energy and kinetics. As a matter of empirical fact, humans and the other living things have and can live without this or that deity and without any deity in mind and belief in any or all of them and without the Bibles, the Qur'an or this or that other scripture, but no biological thing can live without nature and the life support and sustaining provisions of nature. Deities are, or the deity is, in a singular such regard, good luck charms or talismans, or mojos for us to implore for good luck, help, forgiveness for our wrongs, rewards, gifts/givings or benefits we call blessings, as well as are, as declared by us, our supreme authorities and decreers of the arbitrary moral code or dictates that some of us humans think up, write for and preach to others to comply with, and follow and tithe or support us (who, as such thinker and writer authors and preachers, call ourselves, or are called by our believer others as, divinely inspired holy men and women, shamans, witch doctors, wizards, oracles, seers, prophets, clergy of various ranks, saints, etc.) as their worldly spiritual leaders, so as for us in consensus and concert to establish and maintain social order, or group or mass socially-psychologically internalized and publicly and societally exerted and enforced “good” social (initially and basically relating to family units, extended families, clans, tribes and communities of these or complex communities of tribes, etc.) and economic order, a community-wide ethos, or thought and behavioral set of morals and ethics in our interrelations for social or relative social harmony, stability and cohesion.