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Wed Mar 28, 2012, 02:47 PM

cbayer (119,991 posts)

17. What group are you referring to?

Republicans? Fundamentalists? All religious people?

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67 replies	Author	Time	Post
People Are Born with Religious Belief Argues New Book [View all]	rug	Mar 2012	OP
I certainly wasn't.	Arugula Latte	Mar 2012	#1
Yeah. I am real sure that five year old was never ever exposed to any christianity	CBGLuthier	Mar 2012	#2
Keep reading. While membership is high, less than 10% actually attend church.	cbayer	Mar 2012	#4
But you don't have to attend church to be exposed to the concept of God	LeftishBrit	Mar 2012	#11
My experience with Scandanavians, while anecdotal, is fairly extensive at this point.	cbayer	Mar 2012	#14
As regards Australians...	LeftishBrit	Mar 2012	#22
Due to your proximity to Scandanavia and your being a member of the Commonwealth,	cbayer	Mar 2012	#25
So from your experience	Goblinmonger	Mar 2012	#53
Really interesting read.	cbayer	Mar 2012	#3
I wasn't. I found Sunday School with God, the Bible Stories, etc. hard to believe.	no_hypocrisy	Mar 2012	#5
Sounds like an interesting book.	Jim__	Mar 2012	#6
Kids of atheists - no matter how hard their parents might try to insulate them from religion	TlalocW	Mar 2012	#7
I've had two Chinese foreign exchange students...	PassingFair	Mar 2012	#43
I was born Buddhist, just like in my previous lives. :) nt	Speck Tater	Mar 2012	#8
The same group holds more reverence for the fetus than the unborn	liberal N proud	Mar 2012	#9
What group are you referring to?	cbayer	Mar 2012	#17
I think he's talking about the dumbass creationists. n/t	Goblinmonger	Mar 2012	#55
nonsense. nt	bowens43	Mar 2012	#10
Astounding	bongbong	Mar 2012	#12
By your measurement then, there is no evidence infants are born atheist.	rug	Mar 2012	#13
Uhhh....	bongbong	Mar 2012	#19
No.	rug	Mar 2012	#23
Strawman alert!	bongbong	Mar 2012	#26
I see.	rug	Mar 2012	#27
Strawman #2	bongbong	Mar 2012	#29
And I'm sure your four year old self put up quite the argument.	rug	Mar 2012	#44
Yes!	bongbong	Mar 2012	#47
And it appears your skills at argument have progressed little since.	rug	Mar 2012	#65
Yes x 2	bongbong	Mar 2012	#66
Infants aren't born with any belief systems, as far as I'm aware of...	Humanist_Activist	Mar 2012	#51
Great points, a little anatomy and physiology of	SamG	Mar 2012	#59
Reminds me of a joke I heard years ago ...	eppur_se_muova	Mar 2012	#32
The variation I heard involved German Emperor Barborssa	happyslug	Mar 2012	#36
Riiiiiiight. I got kicked out of Sunday School when I was 8	catbyte	Mar 2012	#15
It depends what you mean by being 'born with religious belief'	LeftishBrit	Mar 2012	#16
It's an interesting question.	rug	Mar 2012	#18
+1 n/t	Silent3	Mar 2012	#20
Your post inspires me	bongbong	Mar 2012	#21
So far, there's no evidence indicating that God has to be a sky daddy. THAT may NOT be wired in.	saras	Mar 2012	#24
The author is clueless right from the start	skepticscott	Mar 2012	#28
Not only that...	laconicsax	Mar 2012	#34
There have been several experiments with children raised in isolation	FarCenter	Mar 2012	#30
Ah, but see my post above ! :D	eppur_se_muova	Mar 2012	#33
Another avenue of inquiry would be to study the religious beliefs of primitive people.	FarCenter	Mar 2012	#35
The course of human development from birth to adulthood involves	SamG	Mar 2012	#31
First it is clear baby do HAVE mental needs, mostly to do with interaction with other humans	happyslug	Mar 2012	#37
I'm not sure what your point is. But the nature of human and	SamG	Mar 2012	#38
There are also studies about Children given a choice between a beating and being rejected	happyslug	Mar 2012	#45
The heliocentric model mainly explains the seasons, rather than the times of sunrise and sunset	FarCenter	Mar 2012	#39
Sorry, despite Beatles lyrics, I might admire you	SamG	Mar 2012	#40
To be fair...	LeftishBrit	Mar 2012	#56
The riff on the Beatles was in reply to Happyslug and his riff on Sherlock Holmes	FarCenter	Mar 2012	#41
And the author of the book under discussion does NOT say children embrace theology	happyslug	Mar 2012	#46
Farmers used direct observations of equinox, solistices and calendars since the megalithic	FarCenter	Mar 2012	#49
The best farmers have the most "Farmer's Sayings"/anecdotes or "Old Wives takes"	happyslug	Mar 2012	#54
Based on that reasoning, kids' imaginary friends are real.	Odin2005	Mar 2012	#42
In many ways there are.	happyslug	Mar 2012	#48
But that doesn't make them REAL.	Odin2005	Mar 2012	#50
That depends on your definition of "Real"	happyslug	Mar 2012	#57
Your post intrigues me and I am grateful for your input here.	cbayer	Mar 2012	#60
You you think the voices in a schizophrenic's head are real?	Odin2005	Mar 2012	#61
Real to them, that's for sure.	cbayer	Mar 2012	#63
Seems like a book riddled with anecdotes and confirmation bias.	Humanist_Activist	Mar 2012	#52
Like the Nazi did in regards to cold water temperature survival?	happyslug	Mar 2012	#58
I mention the problem of ethics in a post above, no need to go off the wall about it.	Humanist_Activist	Mar 2012	#62
To interrupt the conversation here...	LeftishBrit	Mar 2012	#64
Your are right, of course, I wasn't thinking of that, they do do studies on children...	Humanist_Activist	Mar 2012	#67

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