So you say that all children are born believing in your God, and then Athists are brainwashed into not believing in God? How does that work? And what about kids on the other side of the world in non-Christian countries? Don't you have to be taught about something first? If you've never heard of a concept, how can you believe in it at all? You wouldn't even know the concept existed!
Can someone please explain this to me, how all babies believe in something they've never learned, and then are brainwashed? Because I'm pretty confused at this point.
2007-07-19 20:02:35 · 11 answers · asked by mathaowny 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Here are your exact words, Hello: "all people are born believeing in God, and then society or parents brainwash some to become atheists...sheep"
2007-07-19 20:03:48 · update #1
How about this? Two thousand years ago no one believed in dinosaurs because they hadn't yet been discovered. But they did exist--yet no one believed in them because they hadn't been shown. Isn't belief in God the same--until you're told, you can't believe in Him because you've never even heard of Him?
2007-07-19 20:08:50 · update #2
Sorry of me to assume, I did and I shouldn't have. Usually I try not to. But you said that we all believe in God until we're brainwashed to be Athiests?
2007-07-19 20:09:51 · update #3
Yes, but those villages had to come from somewhere, right? Someone had to teach them at some point, they travelled to get there. When I was a kid, I never believed in a creator, it just didn't feel right to me at all, even though my family was totally Catholic.
How strange.
2007-07-19 20:17:47 · update #4
Many atheists, agnostics and deists were indoctrinated into a religion as children. This practice of indoctrinating children into a religion is an incredibly selfish and presumptuous travesty that parents inflict on the defenseless minds of their children during their most crucial formative years. Our spirituality is an intensely personal and private matter that we should all decide independently, on our own. If the atheists and others here seem spiteful or fanatical, it's very hard to blame them -- they've had to struggle to undo the damaging brainwashing of their youth. With the slate "cleaned" they must then try to decide for themselves what they REALLY believe.
We should be informed (as best as is practical) BEFORE we make a decision. This is especially true of our religious beliefs. We need to inquire and evaluate the options then DECIDE FOR OURSELVES.
We do an evil deed when we take this option away from our kids.
2007-07-19 20:07:05 · answer #1 · answered by Seeker 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
why do you assume I am a Christian
1 sec I will add the details.....
The Prophet Muhammad said,"No babe is born but upon Fitra (as a Muslim). It is his parents who make him a Jew or a Christian or a Polytheist." (Sahih Muslim, Book 033, Number 6426)
You are right, if you were born is some jungle somewhere, there is no way that you can believe in the trinitarian God, you can only be taught this. This is a major problem for christian theology. However there are many instances of remote villages believing in a creator, this is the natural state that all people are born in.
The religious practices themselves of course have to be taught and learnt. The actual belief in God does not. The belief that someone created the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, does not need to be taught.
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my point is that when remote civilizations are contacted for the first time they usually have the idea of a creator.
An Oxford professor said that to believe the universe was created by chance is akin to believing that a tornado can go through a scrap yard and put together a boeing 747. And on every seat of the plane is a dictionary in a different language. Also there is fuel in the tank, and keys in the egnition. Only after severe brainwashing can someone say this with a straight face.
2007-07-19 20:05:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a fallacious comment - religion is NOT something known about until it is taught to the child. Infants are NOT born automatically knowing about god, or anything religion wise. ll they know upon birth is that there is an awful lot of bright light, too much space around them all of the sudden, that they can make more noise then before (ever seen a baby sneeze and scare itself and start crying?) and that they need to eat.
Scientific conjecture says they also recognize the voices of those around them, if that person was around the mother often when she was pregnant.
But that's ALL they know, and no more, until they learn preferences and other things.
2007-07-19 20:10:49 · answer #3 · answered by Cheese Fairy - Mummified 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't. See when you are a little kid, you just go by what you're parents do not understanding anything till you're older and you can make you're own idea's on religion. We're not born believe in God, we are born believe what our parents do, it's more on the influencial side I guess, but you're not brianwashed or anything like that. It's just you go with what others do untill you make your own idea that comes in as the "brainwashed," part cause you're breaking away from their idea of religion.
2007-07-19 20:09:34 · answer #4 · answered by :: Nero:: 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i read that question and the responses and was going to write to the "hello" person also. all children are born with a sin nature not believing in anything. for years all they know to believe is their parents and then the world happens. ideas, opinions, influences. God says in His word that "every ear will hear the truth." then it's that persons choice if they want to follow God or something else. it's their choice what they want to believe in.
2007-07-19 20:12:16 · answer #5 · answered by chosen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-30 08:59:55 · answer #6 · answered by herbin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the parents of the child. If the parents are religious persons the child will follow because that is the teachings of his parents.
But if the child grew without knowing God yet he is being taught to be on the satanistic way of living, of course he will be of that kind.If the parents are ignorant, the child will grew as ;ignorant as their mother and father especially when he has never gone to school.
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2007-07-19 20:12:23 · answer #7 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People aren't born believing in God. In essence we are all born Atheists and then either through personal desire or by how one is raised one turns to religion or Faith.
2007-07-19 20:35:26 · answer #8 · answered by Aurum 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lol, all people are born with is the need for food and love. Feral children don't believe in God.
2007-07-19 20:05:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are trying to understand the comments of a mental midget. It will only give you a headache.
2007-07-19 20:06:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋