"I for one, don t feel the need to try and convert you..why should I, or anyone else..when you have made up your own mind as to what you believe? Those that believe in a God/Allah, whatever...believe because we know what we know."
Ah but Scarlett, that is exactly what is done to young and impressionable minds. The question of a gods existence, in an ideal world, would not even be brotched until adulthood. I think some of us try to stop the religious mind virus speading from adults to young children who are evolutionly programed to believe anything their parents, teachers, elders tell them. I would not mention atheism to young children in this ideal world - if as one becomes an adult and is introduced to the belief in gods, or lack there of, and decides to believe then that's ok.
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
"I for one, don t feel the need to try and convert you..why should I, or anyone else..when you have made up your own mind as to what you believe? Those that believe in a God/Allah, whatever...believe because we know what we know."
Ah but Scarlett, that is exactly what is done to young and impressionable minds. The question of a gods existence, in an ideal world, would not even be brotched until adulthood. I think some of us try to stop the religious mind virus speading from adults to young children who are evolutionly programed to believe anything their parents, teachers, elders tell them. I would not mention atheism to young children in this ideal world - if as one becomes an adult and is introduced to the belief in gods, or lack there of, and decides to believe then that's ok.
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."