Awesome convo guys - very much enjoying it
I see now how that is incorrect. How can the default position be to have a position on a belief in God? To be truly unbiased you would consider belief and no belief equally... that would be the default position. You could inform a child of the reasoning for or against belief in God... the child could choose to agree or disagree. Before you told him he would have no reasoning either way. Atheism isn't the default position.
(March 14, 2010 at 10:41 pm)tavarish Wrote: A lack of belief would be the default position.
I see now how that is incorrect. How can the default position be to have a position on a belief in God? To be truly unbiased you would consider belief and no belief equally... that would be the default position. You could inform a child of the reasoning for or against belief in God... the child could choose to agree or disagree. Before you told him he would have no reasoning either way. Atheism isn't the default position.