Is'nt everybody born an atheist?

Question

If I never learned about God than how would I know about him.

Answer 1

Wow! That is a great question. Well, until you reach the age of accountability, you wouldn't understand the concept. I don't think that makes you an atheist. The atheist concept comes into play when you know that there is a God, and you reject the truth, and deny that He exists.

Personally, I don't believe that there are any true atheists, only people that aren't sure of what they believe, and reject things that make sense and come from tradition and truth that has been around since before there were atheists! I can understand that people might be agnostic, or not understanding the full concept of God. I would pick up a Bible and read Romans, and then Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and go from there. There are many interesting things, and ultimately leads you to a decision to accept God and His son, Jesus Christ, and believe. The Bible is God's word, written by men, inspired by God, words revealed to men by God. Or, take the other road, where if you are wrong, you will face an eternal consequence for your decision. It is true, and some people like to deny it, and call themselves atheist to try to take the easy way out. It doesn't work, though.

Answer 2

Everyone is born a Pastaferian - A person of faith .
Secular observations of the Lords creation tempt people away from the Almighty , into a life of sin where they bring happiness , reason and understanding to the world.

RAmen

Footnote:

Atheism is a person ‘ Without Belief ‘ . Not a person against belief ( That is an Anti-Theist ) . Many people here have redefined Atheism to suit their own dogmatic belief system .

Praise be to God .

Answer 3

We are certainly born with no knowledge of any god. The one a person chooses or has chosen for them, depends on the society in which they are raised.

Religion is a learned belief. It is not instinctual like language or walking. It is a man made construct designed to control vast numbers of very simple people. Its time is over.

Answer 4

well depends on how you look at it. Babies, put plainly, do not comprehend everything. However, the way I was brought up was that your soul existed before your body and it will exist after your body dies. The soul knows of God and were placed in this body. We have to grow up and accept God as our Creator. Through our experiences in life and choices we make we become who we want to be. We can then choose to believe that there is no God, however if we do choose a God and it the wrong God that we follow, will the rightful God allow us into His kingdom when we die? Now that is the real question.

Answer 5

We are born with the ability to learn, make decisions for ourselves, but we are also born with some instincts, such as how to breathe! No-one teaches us, we don't breathe until we are born, but we still instinctly know how!
These instincts can be un-taught or re-taught, depending on nature and/or nurture!
When God calls us we hear Him, even if we don't want to accept it!
We are all born with a spirit, and that proves that God really does exist! It is down to what people want to believe!

Answer 6

Yes. Everyone is born lacking god belief.

I know some people will say "we're born agnostic, not atheistic", but such an assertion misunderstands the explicit nature of agnosticism. Agnostics intentionally reason their way to agnosticism. It's an explicit, active stance which requires the capability to consider such abstract concepts and to judge them to be unknowable.

Infants are implicit atheists, meaning they lack belief in gods because they are yet unable to conceive of such a thing. Lacking belief in gods technically makes on an atheist. One must develop the capacity for reasoning before one becomes an agnostic.

Answer 7

That wouldn't make you an athiest,that would just mean you were(no offense)ignorant of the truth.In todays world most people know about god unless they live on a deserted island or a 3rd world country.But if you lived your life and died without ever knowing the almighty existed I'm sure the lord wouldn't hold it against you.Get a BIBLE and read it -it will blow your mind.

Answer 8

yes we are all born honest, until we start to experience the world. if eveyone could just live their life with integrity, then there would be no need for religion or a god

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Live your life with pure integrity, and you will not need a god or religion. Believers in god and religion do so because they choose not to always do the right thing and behave correctly . because they know if they do the "believe in god thing", that it is OK to cheat because all you have to do is ask god for forgiveness and you are pardoned. but deep down in your heart, you know you really are a scoundrel. as i said, live your life with integrity and you will live in peace god and religion is NOT the way to peace. you are just fooling yourself. if the reason you choose to do good because you either fear a god. or want to please a god, then you are good for the wrong reason. you should be good for being good. for your own peace of mind.

Answer 9

Yes and no, which is the usual answer to good questions on this site.

I think atheism implies the ability to reason; that (as currently defined) you have to be able to say something along the lines of 'there are no supernatural entities worth worshiping'.

Answer 10

No. Nobody would know about atheist or any other type a thing. You don't think about dying or anything. They would think life is like a dream. In a weird way. If that makes any since.