RE: If everyone was atheist
June 22, 2015 at 10:36 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2015 at 10:41 pm by Pyrrho.)
(June 22, 2015 at 8:41 pm)JuliaL Wrote: []
(June 22, 2015 at 12:32 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:So once we got to a point where everyone starts out as atheists, religion would have a very difficult time catching on, even if people were otherwise exactly as they are now.
Everyone does start out as atheists.
I mean, if everyone were raised as atheists, which is what I stated in my post:
"Also, if you think about the way people are now, very few people who are raised as atheists ever become religious."
You are willfully misrepresenting what I wrote.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.