I’m watching Apocalypse in the Tropics documentary on Netflix about evangelicals and politics in Brazil and it’s mind boggling. Why do the religious people just blindly do whatever the pastors tell them?

  • foggianism@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 days ago

    Another related question: Why are people seemingly more inclined to become more religious as they age?

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      9 days ago

      I know people actually become slightly less conservative as they age, on average, but society in most Western places has moved socially left over time, so they seem conservative now. I’m guessing some of that is also true of religiousness.

      Having to stare down your mortality and insignificance might be part of it. Young people tend to just avoid big picture questions because it’s easy to pretend they can. Now, of course there’s atheist answers to those big picture questions, but as far as I know committed atheists are always outnumbered by agnostics.