Every child is born as an atheist. They know nothing about God. They are made religious only by brainwashing.
Was it the same with Jesus?
Had Jeus been born in India and his parents were Hindus would Jesus have become a Hindu?
2007-01-31 18:59:01 · 23 answers · asked by Born again atheist 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Everybody is. (I don't think people are GETTING what atheism means... it's LACK of belief in the existence of gods. Since children technically DO lack belief, they ARE technically atheists. Call it semantics all you want, but it's the PERFECT example of an implicit atheist and that's something you can't wiggle out of by saying "oh, words words")
If Jesus existed, he was born as such as well.
2007-01-31 19:02:19 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Ummm why try to place on children cultural agenda's and beliefs? Atheism exist as a paradox of religion, if religion didn't exist atheism wouldn't and it would have little power. Children aren't really dualistic in perception, they just are. I can say this however children surely have the beginnings of a philosopher, they are discovering the world around them, asking a lot of questions, growing in their organic reasoning. Children "love wisdom". But as for being an Atheist, there is a difference between a conscious decision of not believing in a God in reaction to religion to just not knowing about a given thing.
And I believe all man are born to be what they are, I believe that the conditions of their life and the associations they meet which in many regards tune their perception/prospective is sort of determined in many regards. I believe people are born under laws and such things will take precedence when they come more into the objectives of their existence. From one prospective there have been children who said they have had spiritual experiences when their families were rather atheist. What do we say of them? Imagination?
2007-01-31 19:35:40 · answer #2 · answered by Automaton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody is born an atheist. Kids naturally believe in God as they come to an age of accountablility unless they are brainwashed to believe otherwise.
A person born as a hindu might start out a hindu but can you predict he'll be a hindu all his life? No, you can't predict nothing because everyone has free will and they can use their logical thinking capacities to choose contrary to what they've been brainwashed to believe. Madalyn Murray O'hare was the founder of the American Atheists Association. She had 2 Sons and she trained them from the time they were knee-high to a grasshopper to be an atheist. She considered all christians to be brain dead, flat earth, morons. She brainwashed her kids in that kind of thinking and to continue her work when she died. One of them is dead(Jon Murray) along with his mother. The other son, William Murray, is a christian evangelist who converted to christianity and fought his mother and brother up until his mothers death and is still fighting her organization.
We all have free will.
http://www.rfcnet.org/news/default.asp?action=detail&article=144
2007-01-31 19:28:26 · answer #3 · answered by upsman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what kind of Atheist you think you are but no one is a born Atheists. Next you will be claiming the mentally handicapped are Atheists. A person can not be an Atheist until they have reached the age of logic and reason. It requires them to have the knowledge that there is no God. Just being unaware of a God is not Atheism.
2007-01-31 19:12:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Uh...no. He's God or God's son. It would be kinda weird if He didn't believe His own existence, right?
And no, He wouldn't have been a Hindu if he would've been born in India. Not all Indians are Hindu and I would think that since Hindus don't believe in Jesus, again, He would have to go with believing that He really is God or God's son.
You're really overthinking this concept. It's not really complicated.
2007-01-31 19:05:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I believe Jesus knew his calling when he was born. In the Bible it tells stories about Jesus as a boy teaching some priests in a temple all about God. How could he know that as a young boy if he was not born with certain knowledge. Jesus is also God's son, put in Mary's womb. He is was different from the rest.
2007-01-31 19:07:59 · answer #6 · answered by chei 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Children are not born Atheists. They are merely a "clean slate" with no beliefs whatsoever. An Atheist has experience in life, "weighed the evidence" (or lack thereof ) and made the decision that there is no God.
2007-01-31 19:21:58 · answer #7 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If he existed, yes he was born an Atheist. I do not believe that Jesus was the Son of God, nor God.
2007-01-31 19:10:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What a foolishness question. Did'nt u know that before the existence of Heavens and Earth, Jesus was already there! How come He doesnt know about God if He himself is a God?
2007-01-31 19:43:21 · answer #9 · answered by Boyet from PH 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm sure he would have become a Hindu, if he was born to Hindu parents. Most people (but not all) follow the religion their family does.
2007-01-31 19:02:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋