There is a reason children believe in God. There is something natural about it...something normal....something ingrained.
Something...
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Um, yeah. Children tend to believe what they're told. My kid brother (7 years younger than me) believed that when he went to kindergarten, his teacher would have a cat-o-nine-tails and he'd be forced to become a servant to the fifth-graders, just because I told him so.
The reason children believe in god is that parents tell them he exists. The same reason children believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. Kids will believe anything their parents tell them. The smart ones realize around the age of 7 or 8 that their parents don't know everything and stop believing everything they are told. The dumb ones may never figure out that they shouldn't believe everything they were taught to believe.
I never believed in god, because I was raised in an atheist household.
When I was a kid and asked my dad what day it was he would answer, "Friday,all day"
Yes, they same reason they believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy. It's because kids are gullible and believe what they're told.
The difference is, eventually, someone explains that Santa, the rabbit, and the fairy are make believe. Normally no one bothers telling them the same about God, so they keep on believing it.
Children do not believe in God unless they are taught about him. Just like everything else, they will believe at a drop at a hat when introduced to it as a fact, however. Like imaginary friends, tooth fairies, boogeymen, ghosts, dragons, bigfoot, aliens, demons, Santa and the Easter Bunny, or pretty much any other fairy tale construct under the sun. It doesn't help that when these constructs synch up well with the human tendency to see human features in everything around themselves. It is natural in that sense. But it doesn't make it accurate.
[There is a reason children believe in God.]
Of course there is.
They're told God exists before they have the critical capacity to decide for themselves.
[There is something natural about it...something normal....something ingrained.]
Natural? Hardly. No child is born with an innate belief in the supernatural.
Normal? Only if that's what you, yourself were subjected to as a child.
Ingrained? You bet. It's ingrained by the adults around the child.
There is a reason newly-hatched goslings believe that the first "adult" they see is their parent. There is something natural about it...something normal...something ingrained.
Something... something very rewarding for the well-timed fox.
Something.... Their parents told them.
I hadn't heard of God until that girl asked me if I accepted Jesus and I was like 'lol wtf I does not has a religion' and she was all 'wtf u r going to hell BAWWWWWW' and I was like 'lol w/e u r like 8 i am not listening to u'
She was a bitch too.
Seriously, I cannot take this guy seriously (NB: this is deliberate)
His screenname describes:
-The womanising and easily-amused governor in Blazing Saddles (played by Mel Brooks)
Dear Lepetomaine,
if you throw an infant into the woods, and it manages to survive and become an adult, and then you bring up God, it will have NO FUCKING IDEA what you are talking about. Children believe in god because their parents/society shoves it down their throats, and they do not have the logical capacity to look at it and call bullshit.
There is a reason children believe in God. There is something natural about it...something normal....something ingrained.
Something...
Indoctrinated?
Religion is more of a symptom of 1 or more survival trait(s) (high intelligence, imagination, mindset of a toolmaker) than a survival trait in and of itself.
children of all ages like the idea of a loving protective being who will make all the bad stuff go away.
Most kids learn in early adulthood at latest that their parents cant do it and God cant or wont either.
Children will believe almost anything they are told by their elders. There is no excuse for adults to do likewise, unless they are wholly incapable of thinking for themselves (and are therefore like very young children).
God is indeed just an adult(??) version of the tooth fairy.
...something magical and fairy-tale-ish about it.
As they grow older, they realize fairy tales aren't real.
There is a reason children believe in Santa. There is something natural about it...something normal....something ingrained.
There is a reason children believe in the Tooth Fairy. There is something natural about it...something normal....something ingrained.
There is a reason children believe in the Easter Bunny. There is something natural about it...something normal....something ingrained.
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