Pinball1970
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That's another thread I think!
Were you born an atheist?
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DaveC426913
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Every three and four year old's world has the context of a nurturing, caring, authoritative figure. That would be its parent(s).
That is the only world it knows until it learns the concept of independence.
I don't know why we would think that the worldview of a child holds any significance. Quite the opposite. They also don't understand arithmetic. Or death. Or a hundred other things.
In fact, we should be looking at a child's wisdom with strong skepticism. To-wit:
"Is it possible that my adult belief in a caring, nurturing, powerful, wise, authoritative figure is a carry-over from my childhood? Is it possible that, as I mature, I should abandon such childhood naivete, in the same way I abandoned the notion that my baby bottle magically refills itself, and my diaper magically empties itself?"
That is the only world it knows until it learns the concept of independence.
I don't know why we would think that the worldview of a child holds any significance. Quite the opposite. They also don't understand arithmetic. Or death. Or a hundred other things.
In fact, we should be looking at a child's wisdom with strong skepticism. To-wit:
"Is it possible that my adult belief in a caring, nurturing, powerful, wise, authoritative figure is a carry-over from my childhood? Is it possible that, as I mature, I should abandon such childhood naivete, in the same way I abandoned the notion that my baby bottle magically refills itself, and my diaper magically empties itself?"
foghorn
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Even sunflowers turn to follow the 'sun god.'
Sometime ago, I read that babies are looking for the god they have recently left, before they came into a new life.
That seems like a sort of reincarnation idea to me. So, that rules out Christians.
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