Are Babies Atheists?
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Been talking a lot about atheism lately, an interesting look at the apologetics surrounding this claim.
I'm a bit on the fence. In my wife's daycare, there are certainly kids who ask the question "who is God?"
But the same kid is the one who shows he already knows the most in so many other ways, so maybe it is just a language difficulty, especially with non-religious parents who simply avoid the issue.
Been talking a lot about atheism lately, an interesting look at the apologetics surrounding this claim.
I'm a bit on the fence. In my wife's daycare, there are certainly kids who ask the question "who is God?"
But the same kid is the one who shows he already knows the most in so many other ways, so maybe it is just a language difficulty, especially with non-religious parents who simply avoid the issue.
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When I think of an atheist, I think of someone who is well aware of the reported attributes of the God that doesn't exist. I know full well the concepts that I reject.
The only problem I have in completely accepting atheism is that I do see the universe as proof of the existence of a creative intelligence that is one of the attributes of the entity that people typically name "God". I should therefore see myself as more of a Deist than Atheist.
The next step to becoming a Theist would be to see this creative intelligence as a person who interacts with his creation and intervenes in human affairs. That is possible but not probable.
If the Tibetan Buddhists are right, and I am correct in linking my interpretation of their work to Catholicism and modern science, then the rumored "deathbed conversion" becomes a very real concept indeed; and such experiences that you need for that final conversion are in fact, as universal as neuralreceptors dying.
Insurance in our order is voluntary: death is not voluntary.
Thus, IF you are open enough to admit Deism, that is in fact, good enough.
I strongly doubt that- especially if as you already say, you aren't a committed enough atheist to do so.
Only when you accept data and provide an alternate explanation for the data, can I trust you.
Many, many NDE survivors have now reported visions of Hell as well as visions of Heaven. I can't reject their data just because it fails to make sense to your "I don't want to be punished for my sins" theology.
Then continue to be controlled by the Catholic Church. Go to them for your salvation and believe everything they tell you. Keep condemning gays and people who use birth control. Don't question anything that they tell you, no matter how ridiculous it may seem.
Gays and people who use birth control need to be questioning what the society is telling THEM, and why.
Not to mention all of those TV sitcoms and Disney films making fathers out to be buffoons to discourage fatherhood, and the current Teen Outreach Program to minority populations to convince them to get sterilized and use contraception.
That's a huge waste of money if such things do not need to be promoted.
I hadn't even heard of Planned Parenthood when I started using contraceptives. From what I understand, it's founder's mother had 18 children and died giving birth. I can see how someone like that might want to change situations such as that.
Doesn't matter- the specific horror-company is not the point.
I don't think Planned Parenthood is going to eliminate the human species. Your just being an extremist in every argument you try to make.
That is not the same as eliminating the human species. That's the point I was trying to make.
All it takes is one child who may have had a beneficial mutation not being born- to create this negative effect.
If so, we will never know. But it doesn't appear that the human race is in need of any significant mutations to carry on its existence.
It didn't appear that cotton needed significant mutation to carry on its existence until the Boll Weevil appeared.
What will eliminate the Eastern American European, I wonder?
It won't be the lack of beneficial mutations that results from abortions and contraception. Maybe it will not be eliminated until life on Earth is extinguished by a cosmic cataclysm.
To bad for Leo. If he had his way, all Americans would answer to him. Separation of Church and State is a good thing for both.
When it turns into the State restricting the activities of the Church and using bullying tactics, that isn't separation anymore.
I suspect it will get much, much worse before it gets better- you can fit a lot of beds in the Hermiston Weapons Depot now that most of the weapons have been incinerated.
Is that just another one of your exaggerations?
Umatilla Chemical Depot incinerated the last of its chemical weapons in October 2011, leaving huge underground bunkers free to be remodeled for various uses.
The bad news: NDAA 2012 sections 1021-1022 authorized indefinite detainment of American Citizens, and the only change the Obama administration insisted on before signing it into law, made it worse- all they have to do is declare that you are a terrorist in a warrant (trial not required, defense not allowed).
They have been shipping a lot of beds and equipment there. But there are other options. FEMA has been revamping their Reagan era camps as well, and of course, the Forest Service has recently refurbished Tule Lake and Pinedale camps in California and Mindoka in Idaho (those last three were last used during WWII for "enemy aliens", mainly Japanese- got some friends of my mother whose parents were in those camps, and the farm she grew up on was an emergency sale during the war, even had a ancient bathhouse still when I was growing up).