
Originally Posted by
AJ Camacho
I'm a little confused. Atheism isn't a belief system. A baby is born, he comes out of the vagina staring at the ceiling.. BOOM, he's an atheist. He's a clean slate, no belief in a god, no concern. A non-belief is not a belief.
I'd argue the point but we'd be getting into me going on the attack and I'm not going to do that here, it's not the point I want to make, it's not the right forum. I'll pass.
As soon as anybody asks you why you're an atheist, when you answer, that's a belief system. If you're angry about it, that's definitely a belief system.
You can act like atheism is the default if you want, but every ancient culture I'm aware of has a belief in the divine. Whether that's stupid or not is another subject: the universality of that fact is important. If every human being is born an atheist, how do you get there? I'm sure some people have a vague sociological explanation which cannot be tested, but I'm not a soft science fan.
Suffice it to say that there are an infinite number of things we don't believe in because we haven't conceived of them. And yet somehow most if not every ancient culture believed in the divine. I mean, if they all believed in aliens, then that would mean something to you. lol