Literal vs Metaphor challenge

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Did you just equate an atheist with a lifeless blob?!

That was for the claim that the unborn/born absolutely have no religious affiliations. As if that was a fact that couldn’t be challenged, granted only those that accept scripture would see it, unless they change the text into metaphors, or reject the author, or ....,,

@Ghost-of-a-Duke

Conversely, does the baby come out declaring -

"Oh, I just want you all to know, I believe in God"?

I think that something like "an age of accountability" is probably true.

(Babies are born with a lack of speech and a complete lack of belief in the divine, rendering them atheists).

So the several plants under the window in the living room where I am are atheists ?

So the few pebbles and rocks in the garden outside are all atheists ?

I don't buy that. It would also imply that a corpse is immediately an atheist regardless if she had been a theist for all of her adult life.

@sonship said
@Ghost-of-a-Duke

Conversely, does the baby come out declaring -

"Oh, I just want you all to know, I believe in God"?

I think that something like "an age of accountability" is probably true.

(Babies are born with a lack of speech and a complete lack of belief in the divine, rendering them atheists).

So the several plants un ...[text shortened]... at a corpse is immediately an atheist regardless if she had been a theist for all of her adult life.

Sorry I was discussing babies, not plants or pebbles.

Definition of atheist:

'A 'person' who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods.'

@kellyjay said
That was for the claim that the unborn/born absolutely have no religious affiliations.

Religious affiliations are a product of nurture and not present when one is born. If you had been born here in my country and had found religion in your 20s or whenever it was, your religious affiliation now would most likely be to Islam and it would not have been the case at the time you were born.

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Many theists misconstrue this notion of a person being born with a belief or awareness of the divine.

In actuality a person is born with a fear and uncertainty of the world around them, which in turn manifests itself (for many) in a theistic outlook to provide answers and reassurance.

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Grampy Bobby used to claim that humans' "sinful" nature is passed on to the next generation through human sperm.

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For me such contemplations are moot.

Humans evolved from Homo sapiens (from the genus Homo) not from a perfectly formed pair of humans in a garden. Therefore, if there were no 'literal' Adam and Eve there couldn't be a 'literal' original sin either.

@fmf said
Religious affiliations are a product of nurture and not present when one is born. If you had been born here in my country and had found religion in your 20s or whenever it was, your religious affiliation now would most likely be to Islam and it would not have been the case at the time you were born.

Two different things, what you are taught and what you had a birth. Assuming one
is the same as the other, is just that an assumption.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
For me such contemplations are moot.

Humans evolved from Homo sapiens (from the genus Homo) not from a perfectly formed pair of humans in a garden. Therefore, if there were no 'literal' Adam and Eve there couldn't be a 'literal' original sin either.

Your belief system doesn't line up with the text so the text is wrong, there are a lot
of people of that mindset.