RE: Would you like if all people became atheists?
June 18, 2013 at 8:00 am
(This post was last modified: June 18, 2013 at 8:02 am by Silver.)
(June 18, 2013 at 5:01 am)ideologue08 Wrote: I would also say that the knowledge of God's existence is also innate.
I have to disagree, because atheism is always the default position. The only two ways I know of for someone to learn of the concept of God is through indoctrination or creating the concept himself without help from any outside source. Unless one spends a solitary life in a cave without internet access, no television, and no books, the latter is not likely to happen.
(June 18, 2013 at 5:42 am)max-greece Wrote: if religion does not offer any benefit to society - why have it?
The only thing that comes to mind for me is that people hold onto it for the sake of comfort much as an infant does a pacifier.
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