Talk:Atheism/About

Religion-wiki — for all religions and none

MattisManzel 11:29, 18 Aug 2005 (UTC): This is basically a good idea I think. There is space for everybody here. Maybe even someone creates a religion? Me, I'm too busy these days to do it. ;) Just please don't bother each other neither cancel the wiki-node. It would be a pitty for the good spirit on religion-wiki, wouldn't it?

[edit] nature vs. nurture

I like the last line of the article:

"...thus many people choose to not believe in any god. It is a simple matter of lack of evidence."

I also like to think about why it is that some people require evidence, and others do not. Obviously we are hugely influenced by our early years of life. That is when we learn (or not) phobias, such as an irrational fear of mice or bugs or heights ... or eternity. And many religions are based on a fear of (or at least an uneasiness about) eternity.

The things you learn early are your foundation. They become your "common sense". They generally do not require evidence. They feel like "nature", but nature is actually just your ability to learn and experience fear. The fear you learn is nurture. My own nurture did not include fear of eternity, so I was freer than most to reach my own conclusions. And the only evidence I have is the eternity prior to my birth. I expect the next one to be the same.

--Bob K 19:30, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Another response

"This theory does not deny the existence of any higher power, just the specific deity mentioned in it. Many Christians have presented the counterargument that "God works in mysterious ways" to refute this proof."

There's also this response, which doesn't sound as much like it's skirting around the issue:

The Christian God is presumably infallible. (Most?) Humans are not. Therefore, questioning that something is true which people believe is the word of God is unproductive.