Jul
26
God: The by-product of an infantile mind
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Infants are hard-wired to believe in God, and atheism has to be learned, according to an Oxford University psychologist.
I’ve also established that children’s natural concepts of God aren’t purely anthropomorphic. They certainly acquire a conception of God-as-man through their religious education, but no child actually links the representation of, for example, God-as-Jesus with the creator of the world. Rather, their images of God the creator correspond to abstract notions like gas, air, and person without a body. When you press them, they of course fall back on what they’ve been told, saying things like, “I know he’s a man because I saw him on the telly,” or “He’s just like my daddy.” These are very rational responses, but they’re not natural conceptions formed by children. Rather they’re imposed by the culture in which the children live.
I don’t find this the least bit surprising. I think at some point most all of us believed in some metaphysical being, whether it be the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, or so on. Only after becoming a teenager where my mind was more capable of analyzing what was being presented was I able to make the conclusion that it’s all a bunch of hooey.
Jul
25
What to do with Fido after the Rapture?
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If you’ve worried about what will happen to Bob the Dog or Mrs. Meowmeow when Jesus raptures your soul to Heaven, worry no more. A Kansas City atheist has a solution for your left behind pets. In this Craigslist ad, an unnamed atheist promises to feed, water and shelter Santa’s Little Helper and Snowball II until they go to the big kennel in the sky after Jesus and the angels have carried you skyward.
All this for just a $50 deposit.
Jul
24
You don’t say.. How come God’s messengers never tell anyone to attend a monster truck rally?
Durban brother and sister Hardus and Nicolette Lotter, who made a brief court appearance on Wednesday charged with the murder of their parents, had been part of a religious sect and had been influenced by Nicolette’s boyfriend and co-accused, Mathew Naidoo, who had claimed he was “God’s messenger”, sources close to the investigation said on Wednesday.
Hardus, who is 20 and a second-year IT student at Varsity College, his sister Nicolette, 26, a waitress, and Naidoo, 21, of Phoenix, were arrested soon after police were summoned to the Lotters’ Thames Drive, Westville, home on Saturday night.
Jul
23
The Border Watch reminds us that free thought is not allowed in a good religious home.
A parent who doesn’t just leave it to the schools, but takes an active interest in their children’s upbringing will see them leave home with good life values in place in their lives. These will make them contributing and compassionate members of society.
One key area of this training up of a child is in the area of religious education.
However, when talking to people about the religious education of their young children, a common response is: “Not now, I’d rather let them make up their own mind for themselves when they are old enough.”
It’s surprising how often you hear that.
However, unless they are taught and trained about the things of God at an early age, how are they going to make up their minds about belief in Him when they are “old enough?”
It goes on from there, giving ideas on how to brainwash a child so that they won’t even think about questioning the idea of the invisible man.
Jul
14
A mentally disturbed woman in Arizona is facing murder charges after police say she broke into an elderly neighbor’s apartment Sunday evening and fatally stabbed an 83-year-old woman — less than an hour after she had been released from a psychiatric care facility.
Scottsdale police say they had taken the women to a hospital for observation the previous week.
The motive described by the murder suspect to investigators, according to a probable cause statement: “God told her to do it.”
What’s scary is this woman is only different from other believers in one way, she actually follwed through with what god told her. She’s not much different than GW in that respect.
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