(August 28, 2008 at 3:45 am)KRW1612 Wrote: When white man arrived in Australia 230 years ago they had never heard of the Christian god or Jesus Christ or Allah or Mohammed. Why? because they had never been taught about these entities. Entities that have been man made by other peoples.While that statement is true, it does not infer the following:
(August 28, 2008 at 3:45 am)KRW1612 Wrote: Therefore we are all born non-believers until such time as some of us are indoctrinated by the teachers of religion, whether they be familly, school teachers, clergy, etc.Because the aboriginals had, and still have their own religion.
But you rescued yourself with:
(August 28, 2008 at 3:45 am)KRW1612 Wrote: If you started a community on a remote island without any knowledge of the current crop of gods and religions, and they had no contact with the rest of the world for 6 generations they would never know the Christian god, or any of the others. However they may have created their own by then, or remained without any.
I'm sure however, that societies will naturally rend towards the development of a religion and a priest caste until better understanding of the nature of the world makes that no longer necessary.
Individual atheists and philosphers may crop up ahead of their time but the move towards secular societies requires a security and level of science education.
I can provide no data for this assertion.
'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely? Jer 8:8
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx