(July 23, 2010 at 7:01 am)Godhead Wrote: Theism is more natural than atheism, I think theism definitely came first. I think that if you took x number of newborn babies and raised them away from all societies, and didn't mention anything to do with god, most of them would be theists.
I think if you took newborn babies away, you'd be arrested.
Seriously, though, you might at a push be able to say that some deist beliefs or belief in the supernatural were ingrained in us, but you're not telling me that one of those babies, when they'd grown up, would suddenly go, 'Aha! There must be something called transubstantiation!'
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
