Plenty of people have beliefs that were not forced upon them. far more brilliant minds than yours or mine have held beliefs in many things unexplainable.
It began a long time before that. In fact that train of thought has in many ways been with homo sapiens since they first appeared.
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You could say that about people who think their life means anything in the grand scheme of things.
Do you think your life means anything in the grand scheme of things?