I think lots of kids do wonder about the legitimacy of religion, before they get to an age where it's so drummed into them that they just follow the herd.
I was questioning it as a kid, I just couldn't accept the miracles of the Bible as fact. Nobody ever gave an explanation beyond "it's magic" either and I wasn't satisfied.
It insults the intelligence and the curiosity of children to say "too young to be an atheist".
I was questioning it as a kid, I just couldn't accept the miracles of the Bible as fact. Nobody ever gave an explanation beyond "it's magic" either and I wasn't satisfied.
It insults the intelligence and the curiosity of children to say "too young to be an atheist".
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
