(February 9, 2012 at 12:45 pm)RW_9 Wrote: In reference to the responses of others: everyone is born an atheist. No child develops his own beliefs about religion without someone manipulating or indoctrinating him. All of us were born that way, it's just that some of us were trained away from it as children.
I disagree that people are born that way (I suspect you mean that ever since someone can remember they've not believed in something religious/spiritual/supernatural) only because religion is so widespread. I think it's something people have made up to explain the world. So, if that's true, its a part of the human story, one that can only be overcome if they know about evolution and how the world works in scientific terms.
I am reading about native american religion at the moment.
Small tribes, making up their own shit.