Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
Everyone, literally, is born an Atheist. Nobody is "born" a Christian, Jew, Moslum, Hindu, Buddhist, etc. They are either trained in these religions from childhood, or learn about them when they get older.
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See this is where I disagree. According to the bible, we're born closer to God than we will ever be. I'm sure that we're with God in some way while we're alive in the womb (no way of really knowing but it would make sense). This is because the bible says that we're all born knowing God, and knowing truth and that we lose our innocence and become guilty as we become more human (I mean older, but in a sense we develope more human-like attributes as we age).

Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
Atheism is a subject that most people know little, or nothing, about. The knowledge and history of it has been suppressed by organized religion, but will triumphantly return to it's rightful place in human evolution in the future - provided the religionists, and/or people involved with other crackpot political/social systems, don't destroy the earth and it's human inhabitants first.
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So you blame the religious world for the negativity it has caused? Keep in mind that communism and fascism used atheism to justify the atrocities like the haulocaust, genocide, and acts against humanity. The soviets, nazis, Iraq under Hussein, etc. There are atrocities commited like the crusades by people who've claimed to be under the direction of God, but keep in mind that any claim involving unneccesary slaughter would not be justified sanely by the bible.
Also, I'm not sure of your religious beliefs, but you seem to hold atheism, and particularily humanity on some kind of pedestal. It's intellectually suicidal to believe that humanity has improved. That is where I must start. Our methods of problem solving, and common sense have always been the same, but it's been the accumulation of technology and information that have brought us to this new age. Thousands of years ago they were teaching something like greek mythology in schools, as if it were historical...nowadays we're teaching theories like evolution as if they are infallible historical fact. A thousand years from now we're teachign that we're the descendents of space aliens as if it's a fact. Looking back at what we USED to believe should at least give us an idea that what we believe now is based on the same earth we have now