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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't "become atheist." That's the default position we're all born with.  You have to be indoctrinated to believe otherwise.  Some parents don't send their kids to church, and some just think religious belief is irrelevant.  Science, yes. Philosophy maybe. Religion, no.  But it is fascinating, theology. Like I do find the King James version of the Bible beautiful as literature.[/quote]

Developmental psychologists have provided evidence that children are naturally tuned to believe in gods of one sort or another.

Children tend to see natural objects as designed or purposeful in ways that go beyond what their parents teach, as Deborah Kelemen has demonstrated. Rivers exist so that we can go fishing on them, and birds are here to look pretty.

Children doubt that impersonal processes can create order or purpose. Studies with children show that they expect that someone not something is behind natural order. No wonder that Margaret Evans found that children younger than 10 favoured creationist accounts of the origins of animals over evolutionary accounts even when their parents and teachers endorsed evolution. Authorities' testimony didn't carry enough weight to over-ride a natural tendency.

Recent research by Paul Bloom, Jesse Bering, and Emma Cohen suggests that children may also be predisposed to believe in a soul that persists beyond death.

That belief comes so naturally to children may sound like an attack on religious belief (belief in gods is just leftover childishness) or a promotion of religious belief (God has implanted a seed for belief in children). What both sides should agree upon is the scientific evidence: certainly cultural inputs help fill in the details but children's minds are not a level playing field. They are tilted in the direction of belief.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/quote/255/20209883.page

The opposite is true. Children exhibit a propensity to a belief in a Creator. [/quote]

Children believe ther eis a boogyman in their closet too.  And in Santa Clause. And the Easter Rabbit.  "tuned in," "a propensity to."  Nice qualifiers there.  They cant believe in God unless they are told about him,  like "now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the lord my soul to keep and if I should die before I wake  ..."  Disgusting indoctrination of children that takes them years to shake off.[/quote]

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