Reply #83: How intimidated you are by atheists [View All]

that you have to say yours is the default position. I know, your response is going to be that I am doing the same thing but I am not. I am not saying that babies are born with the cognitive ability to deny the existence of god. They are not strong atheists like I am. But they are without beliefs. They are not theists. Hence, they are a-theists. The fact that you deny that makes you look pretty damn silly. But not as silly as when you act so obtuse as not to know the difference between babies and rocks. The things you mentioned are not sentient. Hence they would be neither atheist nor theist. Human beings are sentient. Hence they would be theist or atheist. Since babies do not have beliefs (admittedly because they are not cognitively able), they are atheist (though, admittedly weak atheist--having no thoughts at all about the concept of god). But hey, if you want to go around trying to convert carrots, knock yourself out--you couldn't look much sillier than you do now.

The notion that "babies are atheist" is definitionaly sound. Stop making yourself look silly.

I know you didn't MEAN to say that Christianity was no different than any other mythology, but you did. You said that humans had a tendency to create belief systems. So whether that belief system is Zeus, Wotan, Pink Unicorns, Santa Claus, or Jesus, they are just different vehicles to meet what you say humans are hard wired to do. The religions are no different. They are just fanciful inventions to help explain our scary, scary world.

And you never did answer my question as to why Muslims don't give birth to Catholics if religion isn't a social construct. I really want an answer to that. You ignored it down below, too.

And of course your beliefs are the ones that Joseph Campbell was talking about as having more accuracy, perception and universality. How nice for you.