Re: Dawkins was right all along

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    > > ----- Original Message -----
    > > From: Wade T.Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
    > >
    > > > Hi Bill Spight -
    > > > >Anyway, learning is not necessary. :-)
    > >
    > > > Non sequitur. A belief is a learned behavior, especially when taking
    > your
    > > > definition into play. It's only when one speaks the truth that
    > > > remembering is unnecessary, to paraphrase S. Clemens.
    > > > To speak to the doubters of atheism (or science) from infancy, a child
    > > > will examine to a cause, if it can, not create a fairy tale.
    > > > But, if Grimm (or Qur'an, or Bible, or Mother Goose) is offered....
    > >
    > > Hi Wade,
    > >
    > > I am a little bit dazzled here.
    > > If a child is learned to have no beliefs, in casu and for example to be
    an
    > > atheist, wouldn 't it than not mean that we have learned this kid a
    > > believe!?
    > > After all, learning there are no such things as beliefs, religions and
    > cults
    > > would be a " belief " in itself wouldn 't it !?
    > >
    > > You can 't believe in nothing, if you do... you do believe !!
    > > That 's how your mind works !!
    > >
    > > Best regards,
    > >
    > > Kenneth
    > >
    > > ( I am, because we are) still ignorant
    > >
    >

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