Check out Plato's cave.
These people are told from an early age what to believe and when you lead them out of the cave (ei enlightenment with atheism) they would rather go back into the "cave" of religion and believe a simple lie.
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Edited by Jotaro Kujo PhD: 2/4/2015 9:19:14 PMEverything in the universe is ingrained with unchanged, invariable principles. It's almost as if we were part of an experiment by a being so advanced that by our standards would be considered a god. I'm still very much Catholic, but I find that I'm leaning towards deism more and more. To me, it's a highly logical view.