(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.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
