Here's an impossible experiment I would love to see... [View All]

Take a child, and somehow, someway, raise them in an environment that is completely devoid of any religious or spiritual knowledge/education.

Somehow raise a child where they are not inundated with religion in any way, shape or form.

When that person gets to be around 20yrs. or so, show them a bible, and maybe some pictures of the vatican, maybe a shot or two of the pope all decked out in his bling. Then observe their reactions as they then get shown more and more about this concept called 'religion' and the billions of people on earth who belong to them. Wouldn't it be interesting to see into this human mind, unfettered by any man-made fairy tales, and see what they would see? Feel what they would feel?

Would it be disbelief? Betrayal? I would suspect it would be something like an intense feeling of confusion. That person receiving the sudden knowledge of being in the extreme minority of a planet inhabited by people who are, well,...'so easily led', would be interesting to see.

Totally impossible experiment of course...