There's no such thing as an atheist baby

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21. Oh what a crock of complete and utter nonsense.

This is what comes of pretending Atheism is a theology. It isn't. Forget babies. Take a fully grown adult. Now, assume that adult has never been exposed to, and completely unaware of any supernatural gods.

That person is by default, an atheist, even though he may not even be aware of the word at all.


Atheism is not a positive belief that one actively ascribes to. It's a lack of belief. It can be willful, or completely passive.
To the best of our understanding, a one day old baby has no concept of, or awareness of, any god or gods. Until that baby might be exposed to and adopt such material as belief, it defaults to a position of 'atheist'.

Where do these newspapers even find these idiot commentators?

Edit; Withdrawing the 'idiot' allegation. I reviewed the story comments, where the author is actively engaging. I'm starting to think his article was intentionally tongue in cheek.

"AndrewBrown Leopold1904
12 June 2014 10:13pm
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23 I think you'll find we've all been Buddhist babies. It's a phase you go through, over and over again."

That, is clearly a joke.

Edhopper is correct above, when he pointed out that Dawkins didn't say 'babies are atheists'. They are, by default, but that's not what he said:

""When you say X is the fastest growing religion, all you mean is that X people have babies at the fastest rate. But babies have no religion.""