(February 9, 2012 at 12:45 pm)RW_9 Wrote: In reference to the responses of others: everyone is born an atheist.
Nobody is born an atheist. This particular form of justification has always got under my skin. By the same token, nobody is born a theist either.
When you are born you are "a nothing", you know nothing, and you have no beliefs nor disbeliefs. You can't disbelieve something if you have no concept of belief in anything. Atheism is non belief of a particular proposition, that being the existence of god/s.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.