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Is everyone born an theist ? Why or why not? Make your case.
If you mean is everyone born an atheist, yes. No one pops out of the womb believing in any gods.
Is everyone born an theist ? Why or why not? Make your case.
I don't think newborns are capable of belief. It requires a certain amount of brain development. But it is certain they know nothing about the concept of god. That has to be learned one way or another.
We are all born as clean slates...nature and nurture both molds us...
The nature part isn't really a clean slate. Neither is the nurture.
It doesn't matter. Atheism is the LACK of belief in gods. Newborns LACK belief in gods. They LACK belief in everything. They are atheists by the definition of the word.
Yes, even if you later come to believe god(s) are all make believe you will at first see your own subjective imagination as reality. In your own subjective reality there is not a distinction between natural and supernatural all evidence is experiential. Personification is learned before objectification and as such the unknowns will be seen as conscious rather than the result of non-personalized forces. Additionally you will assign a god as the ability to distinguish events as non-personal comes much later in life and will be very diffcult without a fully devloped frontal lobe. The degree by which you embrace this Theism will be most influenced by the language you are taught about it, as this is formative in shaping how your mind interprets and understand your relation to the outside world & internal mindscape. Language in this context, is not type like english or french, but rather the meanings and associated associations one picks up during their early developmental phase.Is everyone born an theist ? Why or why not? Make your case.
If you mean is everyone born an atheist, yes. No one pops out of the womb believing in any gods.
That would make them ignostics,.
Nope. An ignostic is someone who thinks the entire concepts of gods is meaningless and nonsensical. Babies don't have the ability to even consider the possibility. It makes them atheist.
Nope. An ignostic is someone who thinks the entire concepts of gods is meaningless and nonsensical. Babies don't have the ability to even consider the possibility. It makes them atheist.
I'm told I was born under a bad sign. Then a doctor smacked my butt.
Some woman bit an apple a long time ago? So what?
Is everyone born an theist ? Why or why not? Make your case.
Is everyone born an theist ? Why or why not? Make your case.
Which is exactly what atheism is. A lack of belief in gods.
Atheism is still a choice, ie., an arrived at point of view.
A baby hasn't reached even that stage, that's what I mean by a clean slate.
I don't believe in a personal god, but I believe that life has a spiritual basis. By definition, I'm not religions nor am I an atheist, nor am I an agnostic. I might be considered as a pantheist by some.
But I don't pretend to live in a "clean slate" state of being, either.
IN fact, arguing that what a baby is and what an atheist is, that they are the same, is rather silly.
They are not the same.
Yes, they are. Atheism doesn't have to be a choice, someone who goes their entire life on a deserted island somewhere and never even comes into contact with the idea of religion, the concept of gods, they are still an atheist. The religious don't like this because they want to cast atheism as the "enemy". It isn't. It is the default. So they insist that it has to be something that it isn't, which is not only not honest, it's absurd. But this is religion we're talking about, where absurdity is pretty much the name of the game.
Why does it matter? I'm not convinced there is any significance to any socio-political opinions of new born babies.Is everyone born an theist ? Why or why not? Make your case.