(April 8, 2019 at 1:07 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(April 5, 2019 at 10:23 pm)Belaqua Wrote: I've been clear all along that I'm not talking about small children. I'm NOT talking about babies, rocks, lizards, children raised by wolves, or people in a persistent vegetative state.
Are you saying that you honestly just don't get the category difference between a child capable of rejecting the claims of theists and remaining an atheist into adulthood; and a baby, rock, lizard, children raised by wolves, or people in a permanent vegetative state?
Not at all. And I don't know how you'd get that from my post.
If a child hears, evaluates, and rejects religious claims, then he's using his mind and he has reasons. Good reasons or bad.
Do these reasons stay the same, after he's learned more? I should hope not, as little kids don't really understand much theology.