I was raised on a farm. We had pets die, farm animals died, crops would die in a drought or hail. When my grandfather passed away I was 9 years old, I went to the funeral. I put it all together without, apparently, getting much verbal input from the grownups around me. (as far as I recall)
The big 'clincher' for me inre to the atheism angle would have been someone pointing out the nature of my consciousness and existence in the year 1,000,000 BC is going to be identical to my experience in the year 1,000,000 AD.
The big 'clincher' for me inre to the atheism angle would have been someone pointing out the nature of my consciousness and existence in the year 1,000,000 BC is going to be identical to my experience in the year 1,000,000 AD.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.