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RE: Is belief in God a choice
September 4, 2009 at 5:18 pm
: / that royally sucks, Kyu... I think i might have blown a fuse if that happened to a child of mine...
Religion is not a thing that should ever be taught to someone who is impressionable (especially a young person)... that indoctrination is simply evil...
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RE: Is belief in God a choice
September 4, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Child indoctrination is indeed an evil. And it should be pointed out as such; I hate it when it's sometimes made into a euphemism by saying that every child sponges off their parents and that cannot be avoided or something like that - I've heard shit like that. There is a big different to learning from your parents and childhood indoctrination. Children should be taught how to think, but not what to think. They should be taught how to think for themselves. Skepticism is a virtue.
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RE: Is belief in God a choice
September 4, 2009 at 5:38 pm
I must admit some blind shit like that makes me squirm.
My boy came home saying that the Great Wall of China was visible from space.. I had an equally disbelieving face looking back at me when I said it wasn't true.
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RE: Is belief in God a choice
September 5, 2009 at 10:02 am
I think we can conclude from this that Sherlock Holmes was obviously Vulcan.
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RE: Is belief in God a choice
September 6, 2009 at 1:22 pm
(September 4, 2009 at 2:02 pm)Tiberius Wrote: How is belief the default? You honestly think that if you let children grow up without any understanding of religion or god, they would still believe?
God has to be taught, Christianity has to be taught. Non-belief is the default position of everything and anything (be it child, flower, or tree) because none of these things have any idea what God is, so they cannot possibly believe in them.
Ok I badly miss stated my case.
What I meant was, in most cultures where there is a prevelant belief system, that system is what most people follow, especially if they don't think about it.
How many people say they are church of england in the census but never go to church have never read the bible etc.
I was not trying to suggest that we were all natural theists.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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