Reply #24: That is a developed trait

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It is not inherent at birth. We don't even have an awareness of self at birth. That has to be learned as well. Later we learn to project the identity we have learned to attribute to ourselves to others we encounter. We associate their behavior and personality with this identity we project upon them and this is how we internalize them.

The concept of God comes from this process but it taught specifically by parents and others to guide the process of projecting identity onto the universe, elements, or whatever the particular cultural belief system assumes as having an identity. This is more decidedly learned. The capacity to project identity does not mean that it automatically leads to projecting god onto things. I as an example was raised by nonreligious soft atheist parents. I never projected a notion of god onto the universe. I never really encountered strong advocacy for the existence of gods until my view of the world was well developed. By that time such propositions could not find purchase within my mind. I saw the things they claimed as god to be easily described by other factors not requiring an identity to explain.

So no. God is not a universal thing. Not all who are born believe in god or come to believe in god. I am evidence of that as are any other life long atheists.