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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2008/nov/25/religion-children-god-belief

Out of the mouths of babes
Justin L Barrett

Do children believe because they're told to by adults? The evidence suggests otherwise

Correct link [/quote]

Haven't checked the link to see how scientists could determine that babies believe in a creator -- but even so, they could not believe in Jesus or the Christian God, or the God of any religion.   You have to be taught that.

But even if babies "believe" in a creator, that doesn't make it so.  Bables also believe they are the center of the universe and all their needs should be met.
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Babies are so selfish, wanting to be fed and diapered and cared for? Is it your position that babies should not have their needs met? You are seriously disturbed. Twisted af. Gross. [/quote]

It was immediate pp who suggested that babies should not have their needs met.  Who would ask such a thing?  perhaps a baby hater or someone trying to smear someone because they think they are not Christian.  [/quote]

What does religion have to do with being a jerk about taking care of the needs of infants? Clue in: anyone who says such ugly things about taking care of babies is a scary person. Full stop. [/quote]

What “ugly things” did the PP say?

Or is this some fiction that you just need “to believe”? 
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