I get your point (somewhat) but of course people choose what to believe or to not believe. Two kids go to church for years and one believes and one does not. A choice was made.
Your point (correct me if I'm wrong) is that one doesn't chose to believe in God. One either believes or doesn't believe. It's not something that one consciously choose. That's ridiculous of course since you would have never "chosen" something you weren't already exposed to. If you were a primitive man where nothing was understood then you might make up gods for every unknown (weather god, god of the sea, fertility god, etc). In today's world you "believe" in God because you've been exposed to God culturally.
Years ago, (I forget which thread or what the subject was) I said "No matter what anyone says, there will be someone who disagrees". Someone replied "I don't think so". <>
This illustrates a general problem with powerful institutions that fear groups that hold different values. All such institutions are primarily interested in protecting their powerful positions and are not interested in the welfare of individuals. This applies to religious organisations (e.g. Jehovah Witnesses accused of poor child protection policies) and non-religious ones (e.g. the Soviet Union campaign against Jewish poets, writers, painters and sculptors).
To get logical awnser to above, first we may need to undersrand real and universal definition of true religion. We can not base specific definition as per specific culture for it. I tried to define it in my other topic. Faith is not limited to any specific religion or a specific being. Keeping faith in your parents, teacher, friends etc is also a faith. A skeptic can keep faith in science, a believer in god etc. Imp point is keeping faith and following good, healthful and harmonizing practices.
I assume you mean that aliens are unlikely to exist. It's true we haven't discovered any yet, but the number of discovered potential life-supporting planets is increasing at an exponential rate. The universe is probably teaming with life and therefore teaming with believers of various kinds, all of which must be different from any on earth, but all having some sense of the Truth.
For some reason I can't read the original post probably because on my Iggy list But that's OK No I certainly do believe that the Universe teams with life. And I'm guessing many will have some sort of belief in some sort of god For atheist like myself it won't make a scrap of difference how many gods are on my Iggy "Don't bother this god" list And this mystical Truth of which you post. Which Truth would that be? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!