This happens with a lot of things in life. Do you follow politics? There is no way every person who does can possibly agree with every policy a political party promotes. People don't agree with a lot of things within society, work, but how will things ever change for the better if people aren't trying to get that to happen.
I don't agree with everything any political party says, which is why I don't align with any one in particular and don't believe anything they say without questioning it. Same with people at work or in any social groups. This isn't a good analogy.
However; I have already stated that I think there must have been underlying issues, in the 12 year old little girls case. I couldn't imagine what would possess a child to commit suicide
I can. It's called religious belief. Even if this particular example was a rare occurrence. People do crazy things because of what they believe all the time.
and I really don't see this as a believing what they've been told type thing, this isn't normal behaviour for a child.
Do you think she came to the conclusion that she'd see her daddy in heaven all by herself then? No, I'm pretty sure she would have been told this by an adult, probably her mother, which would make the story even more sad. I agree it's not normal behaviour for a child. One of the things known to produce unusual behaviour in children is believing in things which are not true.
Why does it matter if people would pray for someone to get better? It's not changing anything. Again, it's not just religious people who do this.
Non-religious people don't pray. Prayer is a purely religious activity.
But I don't assume that every non-religious person is the same, and would just believe anything because of this. But this is basically what you do regarding religious people?
No, I don't view every religious person the same at all. But I can view certain aspects of people who have the same characteristics as being similar. I question anyone who will freely believe anything without sufficient evidence, religious or not.
Totally. Do you know the religion or beliefs of each person you have on social media though? I would say this is more of an assumption on your part, unless of course you do.
I do. Because I know everyone on social media who I'm linked with personally.
Unfortunately, I think you'd still get these fanatics, extremists and fundamentalists without religion.
To quote Steven Weinberg, "Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
You don't understand why people need it because you don't need it though.
That's such a weak, dismissive comment. It's almost as bad as saying I don't understand god because I've never experienced him. I genuinely don't believe that anybody needs religion. Anything it can offer can be offered elsewhere without the need to believe in the supernatural, with the exception, of course, being where someone is in a position because of religion and that religion has offered the only way out (and even then, it's only a perception that religion is the only answer).