assignment for a class. enjoy! lol
I thing that people reject the idea of a god because they want to be free from gods. This reason is, in my opinion, what leads people away from god. They want to be with rules or regulations.
In the one instance, with the lack of their religious knowledge, they think that following a god would require a lot of work from them, starting to go to church, having to read devotionals, go to prayer meetings, and other things. They might think that having a god would crowd their lives and leave them no room for fun. They might think that a god would bring extra responsibilities. Maybe they think that a god will leave them with more troubles then they bargained for. This is America the free, so why have a god to restrict you?
Or maybe the people who reject gods are doing such because they understand gods enough, and it is a simple case of wanting to be free from all regulations and restrictions. They want to keep their drugs and tattoos and piercings while they can, so that they can have self-please and hang with the “cool” people. They want to sin, and a god would stop that. They want to be free of parental-type rule.
So in conclusion to my assumptions, I think that people don’t want a god because the idea of having one is not something they want. They imagine what will happen with a religion and they don’t like that image.
Wow, ya know, my family and I were actually talking about that same thing not so very long ago and came to the same conclusion.