You ASSUME you KNOW the infant mindset, that it lacks belief? Re: Lack of belief in gods

[TheCodedAtheist]

1000You2b0001 - If you accept that atheism in the broadest sense denotes a lack of a belief in gods, then it follows that you must also accept the fact that this implicit atheism is the default position inherent in those (i.e., newborns) that have yet to develop the cognitive ability to formulate any theistic concepts of God or gods

[2eelShmeal]

I remember the posters I had up in my mom's uterus. By the time I was 1, I had my own place.

[Danawaii]

I Don't Think We Have Evidence Of A Childs Mindset But We Have Common Sense. When You're Born I How Would You Know About The Bible/God? Seriously, I'm Probably 25 Years Younger Than You. We Don't Even Know Who God Is So We Aren't Born Atheist.

[YetAnotherInfidel]

@Danawaii

Let me correct you here: Atheism, most inclusively, is a LACK of belief, meaning that we simply haven't accepted theological claims to truth due to lack of evidence or general irrationality incorporated into their holy texts.

Now, crateguy is correct when he says that you wouldn't grow up believing in a God if that idea were never presented to you.

If you accept that you wouldn't have grown up believing in God if you hadn't been taught, then you have proven that babies are atheists.

[stevenscatering]

do you get your rocks off on being so damn negative about everything... stop trying to bust people's chaps, you're just not really good at it.

[SuperChristopherZ]

Love is the most powerful concept which goes beyond human understanding when it comes to dealing with others. I began to understand Love when I saw Rwandans butchering eachother. I mean Catholics could have stopped it but most religions supported slavery only 60 years ago and the way of a child is to make allies and enemies and they get so good at it they never find out what being human should be. I was BORN in GOD and by God and I have understanding no other person seems to have but someareok

[Despanan]

Hey idiot,

One is not born believing in Buddha, Jesus Christ, or Zeus, just as one is not born believing in Santa Claus. These ideas must be taught to a child by other humans. Why would you ever even BEGIN to imagine that a child could pop out of the womb with the concept of Odin and Thor pre-programmed into their minds at conception is beyond me.

Guys like you are the reason guys like QS have to refute arguments about evolving from rocks and dogs

Also: You're ugly and your hat is stupid.

[cynrama]

issues, dude

[JetpackNinjaDinosaur]

The prefix a in atheist is the same as the a in achromatic, or amoral. It means without. achromatic things are without color, amoral people are without morals. Atheists are without belief in god.

[JetpackNinjaDinosaur]

Hey man, just wondering where you got your PHD in neurology?

OH you never studied neurology? GTFO then.

[losthills]

Them babies is killers and tyrants.....

[protester]

When you look into the eyes of an infant one can see the beauty and greatness of the universe. We are star dust.

[goodsenseofhumor]

@protester We may be stardust but you got angel dusted!

[crateguy]

People aren't born with an innate knowledge of anything, let alone something as complex as religion. The proof of this is that there are countless religions. If it were the case that children could be born with innate religious knowledge, then how could more then one religion exist?  The only thing a child knows when it's born is basic bodily functions that are mostly out of it's control. They can't read holy books and they definitely can't self identify as belonging to a religion.

[crateguy]

The concept of religion is something the mind of a child simply can't comprehend, to say otherwise is to claim firstly, that a newly formed mind has more knowledge then an adult mind and secondly, that a person would default to a religious position even if there were no outside influences like parents or other authority figures. We already know what happens to a child when no outside influence is introduced. They become feral, not religious.

[MysterEy1]

@crateguy not true. Religion starts in childhood. Pretending and imagination are in the child's consciousness and experience. That involves associations and symbolic thought. This indeed is the basis of the theological and especially figurative approach of religious thinking.

[crateguy]

@MysterEy1 Imagination is the farthest thing from religion. Imagination is pure, abstract thought. How can you compare that to reading something in a book and accepting it as truth? It may have required imagination to create these religions, but to simply assert that religious thought is equal to imagination is to ignore the fact that these thoughts and behaviors are learned, not bred in.

[goodsenseofhumor]

@crateguy Imagination was started by John Lennon! I think he trademarked it.

[desertjournalonline]

Gus said, "All things are possible."

Scientists assign probability to theory.

One in a trillion chance that people realize the foundation for heaven may very well be the Earth.

[MysterEy1]

@desertjournalonline mhm, yes. but do children know about Gus immediately from birth?