Reply #12: I disagree with "Either you're inclined to be a person of faith or you aren't"

[muriel_volestrangler]

Look at the wide variation of levels of religious belief between countries. It's far more a function of culture and the environment you grow up in, or live in as an adult, than any innate tendency. Your tendency to have religious (or supernatural) beliefs may not be something under conscious control, but it's not 'how you're wired'.

And I'd agree with the OP that some of The New Atheists want to change societies to be a place where religious belief has as little influence as possible. I think it's fair to talk about Dawkins' agenda, for instance.