I'd venture to say your argument has more merit. I do believe everyone is born atheist. Without god.
God and religion are concepts that are taught to an open mind that has no prior knowledge of them. The concept has to be introduced, because one is not born with knowledge of god else religions would not practice in faith, they'd celebrate as fact.
The agnostic variable that your brother supports would mean that at birth one bears an innate sense the causal factor behind all that exists will never be known and yet, affords the optimism that there is a probability factor inherent in all that exists that may indeed stand to reveal it's source.
After birth is when one is imprinted with the subjective references that define our reality. Atheism, everyone is born an atheist, is simply that what describes born without knowledge of human god concepts, which must be taught. The agnostic potential contrary to that, given the factors that define agnosticism, is something that must be rationalized. Which precludes that being the condition inherent in newborns, who are irrational.
At least that's how I see the argument.
God and religion are concepts that are taught to an open mind that has no prior knowledge of them. The concept has to be introduced, because one is not born with knowledge of god else religions would not practice in faith, they'd celebrate as fact.
The agnostic variable that your brother supports would mean that at birth one bears an innate sense the causal factor behind all that exists will never be known and yet, affords the optimism that there is a probability factor inherent in all that exists that may indeed stand to reveal it's source.
After birth is when one is imprinted with the subjective references that define our reality. Atheism, everyone is born an atheist, is simply that what describes born without knowledge of human god concepts, which must be taught. The agnostic potential contrary to that, given the factors that define agnosticism, is something that must be rationalized. Which precludes that being the condition inherent in newborns, who are irrational.
At least that's how I see the argument.
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