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Originally Posted by Mr. Mistoffelees
Everyone is born atheist? What empirical evidence do you have to support that?
If everyone is born atheist how come every culture has a deity?
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I can answer that. Everyone is born an atheist because we're born with a blank slate. Belief in God is something comes later, either through searching it out or being taught.
Every culture has a Deity because when primitive man looked up into the night sky he thought, wtf?
...You know, actually, I disagree with myself. People aren't born Atheists. To be an Atheist is to be able to think critically about the idea of God and come to a decision that you don't believe it exists. This is actually a deeper question than I realized, because to say we're born as anything at all is to ignore the the almost incomprehensible impact society has in shaping us. It would be disregarding the idea of the signifier and the signified. Hmmm. But then you get into Chomsky's whole thing about language being innate, and my mind is officially blown.
I have no answers! No answers!