2006-09-26 06:06:06 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Anyone who says otherwise is lying to you, and to himself...
2006-09-26 06:07:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Humans have a tendency to see patterns in everything, even when they aren't really there. I think that leads to theism, not atheism.
If you left a group of young children on a deserted island paradise, I think they would create a new religion as they grow up. I don't think they would become atheists.
Theism seems to me to be the natural opinion of humans, but what is natural isn't always the best. If it was, we should all go back to living as monkeys in the jungle.
2006-09-26 06:15:09 · answer #2 · answered by scifiguy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's possible, but it does beg the question as to why humans developed religion in the first place. If we're all born atheists, why invent gods/religion?
In Islam it is believed that all children are born Muslim; so a person converting to Islam is actually believed to be returning to the faith.
2006-09-26 06:09:46 · answer #3 · answered by N 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. We are born self-centered, but helpless. Then these two giant Beings begin taking care of us, meeting our needs, and comforting us when we hurt. This action imprints us with the idea of a God and/or Goddess. We take that imprint with us throughout our lives, and when we reach adulthood, we either still desire that God to take care of us, or we realize that it was all just a deep desire based in natal memory.
I'd make a good atheist if I hadn't actually MET the Lord. lol.
2006-09-26 06:24:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the nature of man is to believe in a higher being. ALL cultures of ALL times have believed in superior beings. Take Native American culture for example. Nobody told them about a great spirit, they just naturally came to that belief. Atheists are made, not theists. Everybody starts out believing in some kind of higher power.
2006-09-26 06:10:33 · answer #5 · answered by Cybeq 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
the church has continuously got down to damage the organic state...... look at sin...Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy,and delight.... will be translated into sex, starvation, choose, relax, Anger, choose and self-worth... or Procreation, ingesting, filling our own desires, Resting, wrestle injustice, artwork , Self fee all of that are needs of a valid human existence..... In using this stuff as their starting place for condemning the human race, religions have stumbled on a fashion to continuously teach a human is "sinful" because those are truly human desires.... we are born organic... without religions without serving gods, and it takes religions an incredible style of abuse on someone to curve them into religions.... it truly is why we stay in one of those violent global...
2016-12-02 02:39:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is quite possible! For myself, I was taught at a very young age about god and jesus....it wasn't until I was an adult that I really started seeking the truth and realizing how phony religion is!! Mine is a loonng story that I wont bore you with here ;)
2006-09-26 06:13:47 · answer #7 · answered by Joeygirl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If only, but as children we always look for the easy ways to answers. Thus since we have no understanding of anything we accept answers like god made it, its gods will, god and Santa know if your naughty, religion is necessary, god protects children and other innocents. Jesus loves us, the Easter Bunny, we are born evil................
2006-09-26 06:16:52 · answer #8 · answered by tammidee10 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that it is probably agnosticism... but I wonder what would happen if you had an isolated community and raised all of the children with no mention of the supernatural at all.
2006-09-26 06:08:29 · answer #9 · answered by ZombieTrix 2012 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All children are born that way until they are introduced. The first time someone started talking to my four year old about god she got a big "WTF" look on her face.
How can you be agnostic if you have no concept of god? You can't be unsure of something you have never heard of.
2006-09-26 06:08:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say agnosticism is our natural state of consciousness.
2006-09-26 06:07:20 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋