>>
>> "Christopher A. Lee"
optonline.net> wrote in message
>> news:kk6hj2llcus9medfej6jmbp5g1dai4rkeg@4ax.com...>>> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:29:25 -0400, "ZenIsWhen"
MYOB.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>> SNIP
>>
>> Finally got the fish on the hook.
>>
>>>
>>> He's being deliberately stupid.
>>>
>>
>> Mind reading again are you? Very "mystical" of you.
>>
>>> Children of atheists don't go through the same process.
>>
>> It is the same process. You learnt to imitate your parents and absorbed
>> their own beliefs by observation, instruction, sitting on their knees, as
>> well as what was not said. Of course gods were not mentioned, as if
>> atheist parents would send you off you sunday school. Do think devote
>> Christians or Muslims mention that there is such a thing as athiesm as
>> an option their children can choose?
>
> Yo!
> This specific part of the topic was about what children are BORN with -
> not what they learn growing up!
>
>
>>
>> It's the same process ... different concept being passed. Read a book
>> about parenting and psychology and anthropology. Your beliefs are
>> ludacrous in this area. Young children are endoctrinated to be in harmony
>> with their parents own beliefs about life. Overtly and just by being
>> present around them.
>>
>> In my case
>>> gods weren't even mentioned so the first time I encountered a
>>> believer, she made no sense whatsoever.
>>>
>>
>> So what. The exact opposite occurs the first time a child who has been
>> thoroughly schooled in religion meets someone who is different. It's
>> normal. You ain't that special.
>>
>>> I had however learned to read early, and came across Greek, Indian,
>>> Chinese, Norse etc myths before Christianity.
>>>
>>> When I encountered my first believer, after the shock had passed what
>>> got added to my knowledge base was "some people still believe this
>>> stuff".
>>>
>>
>> Yeah they do. So what? Some people are into BDSM & Torture too. Some are
>> gay, some dress up in womens clothing. Some even voted for Bush. An
>> atheist nation just tested a nuclear bomb. People are different. Get
>> over it.
>>
>>> You don't need to teach "this what a god is, by the way it doesn't
>>> exist".
>>>
>>
>> No, but you chose to adopt your parents pov. which is fine. Your choice.
>>
>>
>>>>New born children have no belief in any gods; that makes them atheists.
>>>>They don't need to have a concept about atheism to be atheists.
>>>>
>>>>Can you rebut those statements, or just call me names?
>>>
>>> It's because how ever many times you keep telling him what it means to
>>> be atheist, it's as if you never said it at all. He *K*N*O*W*S* that
>>> atheists are what he says we are, so we have nothing to say to him on
>>> the subject.
>>>
>>> And like most of them he doesn't see the arrogant rudeness in trying
>>> to "disprove" what we tell him about ourselves.
>>
>> You're paranoid Christopher. So paranoid it doesn't matter what anyone
>> says.
>>
>> Nevertheless, it's about time you stopped telling others what they think,
>> what they say and why they say it, because you repeatedly show that you
>> do not know and cannot comprehend the most basic stuff.
>>
>> On the other hand I hear what you say, and others say, and across the
>> board you all have varying opinions about what an atheist is, and what
>> the defintion of what that word means, and what theism's definition is,
>> and a whole lot of other related issues, but they are far from
>> consistent.
>>
>> Some idiot today even said that some one who believed in one particular
>> God was an atheist because he didn't believe in another religions gods.
>> Atheist to him meant, a lack of belief about "a" god, and therefore even
>> a Christian qualifies as an atheist. Are you now going to jack-boot all
>> over him because he's saying he K*N*O*W*S something different than you
>> do?
>>
>> This is actually the normal standard of rationality and confusion I have
>> come to expect from most atheists around here. One delusion after
>> another.
>
> Believers suffer from delusions, not "non"-believers!
>
You are perfectly entitled to ignore everything I say, and believing I said
something else. It's your head.
