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All children are born theists

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...until they're indoctrinated into being atheists:

More Studies Show Children Are Wired for Religious Belief: A Brief Literature Review

If you’re an evolutionary atheist, don’t you find this just a bit peculiar?
scienceandculture.com

Back in April, David Klinghoffer noted a story in the Wall Street Journal about how Boston University psychologist Deborah Kelemen advocates “suppressing” belief in a “God-like designer” by trying “to get young children to understand the mechanism of natural selection before the alternative intentional-design theory had become too entrenched.” What was intriguing was not just how evolutionary scientists are scrambling to indoctrinate children against perceiving intelligent design in nature, but also how children have an innate tendency to recognize that design and, furthermore, to believe in a personal creator.
 

Religious Indoctrination: Psychological Effects ​


Synonyms​

“Brainwashing;” Religious or spiritual inculcation; Religious or spiritual propagandism

Definition​

This refers to the influence of religious beliefs or ideologies imparted through the means of authority, pressure, or perceived influence to impact a person’s mental, emotional, and behavioral state. Religious indoctrination is the communication of religious beliefs, likely through means of power or authority over the recipient, in such a way that discourages the recipient to critically examine evidence against their beliefs (Hand, 2002). There is considerable controversy among academics regarding the ability to impart religious knowledge without indoctrination (Chazan, 2006; Hand, 2002); however, there seems to be some consensus that the method of instruction and the authority of the instructor are influential in whether indoctrination takes place during religious education. Religious indoctrination occurs when religious beliefs are imparted by an authoritarian figure.
 
Bullshit.

All children have to be indocrinated into theism


Those that arent, arent theists
 
Demon said:
Wrong. They actually took me to church.
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Then if your parents had been atheists, they probably would have indoctrinated you into atheism, and you would have disbelieved in it when you got older.
 
Rambozo said:
Then if your parents had been atheists, they probably would have indoctrinated you into atheism, and you would have disbelieved in it when you got older.
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Lol. Sure.
 
From your link


But then children also have a natural instinct to believe in santa , tooth fairy and the boogy man. In fact any fictious creature you tell children about and they are quite likely to believe in it. Not because such creatures exist but because children have an open imagination and have yet to learn about being cynical about what adults tell them.
None of these studies can actually say what children are born with because all these studies are about children not new born babies. And further more the studies are about children whom have already ben told stories about religion.
 
So that means that if children are born atheists, being an atheist is like believing in Santa.

Lol.
 
Rambozo said:
So that means that if children are born atheists, being an atheist is like believing in Santa.

Lol.
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You really do know how to twist words around.
Children are not born atheist or theist because both are ideas that need to be formulated. No one is born with an innate idea of christianity they learn about it by being in contact with people of that particular sect and learn of that sect. Atheism itself is nothing more than a response to theism. No one is an atheist until they meet up with a theist and reject what they say.
 
Some stuff gets passed down by our DNA. Every wonder what hunting and fishing are so popular even across all cultures? It's because that's a instinctive skill that has been passed from generation to generation through our genetic makeup. Same as the compelling pastime of gardening, farming and growing crops. Our ancestors did it 2000 years ago and it's still highly relevant today. Belief in religion is the very same thing. The only difference now is our early ancestors accepted it as faith and common sense, but today our pseudo-intellectuals find it in-vogue to deny everything they can't understand nor control the narrative.
 
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Wow.

I could write a dissertation on everything wrong with that post.

The Decline of Hunting and Fishing | Wildlife for All

The Decline of Hunting and Fishing. The number of hunters and anglers has declined in actual numbers and as a percentage of the population.
wildlifeforall.us
 
That sounds a bit poe.
 
If one was never told the tale of Santa, then they would have nothing to base their belief or non-belief on. They just know they get gifts on a certain day for some reason.

But I'll guarantee most parents end up talking to their child about god even if they do not actively practice. It's just more of a fear of death thing to feel better about it. So they err on the side of caution.

Then of course the child believes in the fantastical; until they mature enough to tell themselves it's all a bunch of bullshit.
 
Young children raised in healthy and safe dynamics within their home will tend to believe what their parents tell them.
 
WHAT SHALL WE TELL THE CHILDREN?

Children, I'll argue, have a human right not to have their minds crippled by exposure to other people's bad ideas—no matter who these other people are. Parents, correspondingly, have no god-given licence to enculturate their children in whatever ways they personally choose: no right to limit the horizons of their children's knowledge, to bring them up in an atmosphere of dogma and superstition, or to insist they follow the straight and narrow paths of their own faith.

In short, children have a right not to have their minds addled by nonsense. And we as a society have a duty to protect them from it. So we should no more allow parents to teach their children to believe, for example, in the literal truth of the Bible, or that the planets rule their lives, than we should allow parents to knock their children's teeth out or lock them in a dungeon.
 
Somebody is really worried about their own belief system.
 
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