[Serious] Atheist Dogma

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

It's not a conclusion, but a condition.

And it would be more accurately expressed as, 'The state of my non-belief in God is exactly the same as that of a bicycle.'

Boru

If you want to assert that you're not a thinking person, that's your option.

Earlier in this thread, I made the statement 'One might say that a newborn is atheist by default, but an adult is atheist by conscious choice (in most cases)', to which you gave a kudos (thank you).  Do you no longer agree that there is a condition in which one can be atheist by default?

Of course I don't maintain that bicycles or lizards go through a long, sometimes torturous period of research and argument to come to the conclusion that they don't believe in gods (some adults don't go through that as well).  But the term 'atheist' is properly applied to a current state of being - it says nothing about how one got to that state of being. 

If you agree that a newborn is an atheist by default, why can't lizards, bicycles, onions and the rest also be atheists by default?

Boru

apos for being repetitive - I missed your edit.