Article- "Skeptics and Critically Thinking People of Faith Share Common Ground" by Micheal Shermer

Shermer's Explanation on the belief in God is part cognitive and biological. This is not true because of a belief from a parent doesn't mean you are going to be born to follow it. The cognitive part is a way of thinking that "people believe in God to control anxiety and enables one to blame bad outcomes on evil spirits or God's will". In the article it discusses how the leading skeptics are males. The leading publishers of skeptics books are males 110 male authors and only 4 females authors this may be because females are more open-minded and males beliefs are base mainly on facts. In my opinion, I believe that you can be influenced by society/friends on religion and not necessarily follow what your parents believe in. Also believe that you should be able to make a choice on what you believe in if you choose to believe in anything at all. It should always be a choice that you want to make in life. I also believe that people believe in a certain religion because of the sense of comfort and relief that is provided by that religion, so whatever the belief is of a certain individual is mainly because of the sense of brotherhood that they get from that religion and the comfort level that they get from it.