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Question: What is a new born child----a Theist or an Atheist!?
If you answer, none of these, then it's obvious that the new born babies use to get the knowledge after a certain time from their parents, right!? Does that mean that Atheists become Atheist calculating their own imagination, experience, wisdom(!), education etc!? Well, this is my question indeed!. Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Yes of course!.!. Atheism requires a great deal of thought, introspection and reason being used (I guess Theism as well), so like most things in life, we have to learn before we commit to a stand!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

New born babies are simply being experiencing being in this present manifestation living purely in the present moment without thought or care of whether there is a god or gods are not!.

They know when they are hungry, uncomfortable, scared, lonely, etc!. all in the immediate now with no idea or thought of a future!.

As one develops and learns to think so as to properly utilize the objective observations one has made in a manner that reveals what is rather than what one may want such to be, then one will choose his or her belief or a lack of the same!.

Be well!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

From external point of view if you are somehow able to communicate the baby "whats GOD!?" the logical answer to expect from it would be don't know!. So baby would be an agnostic!. But truely speaking this agnostic view is the same as view of a stone or any nonliving thing for that matter!. The difference between an adult agnostic and a baby would be that baby simply doesnot know the reasons for its "dont know" condition where as an adult agnostic would go:
Since this world has some fabuluos strangely designed things which makes one think of manifestations of somebody carefully doing it!. At the sametime this very same world has some disasterously wrong things which make one think that we are living in a complete anarchy!. So it is(atleast with current technological tools and methodologies) impossible to arrive at a specific conclusion and so the answer would be "donot know"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Babies aren't even functionally intelligent for 6-8 weeks (read "I am a strange loop" by doug hofstadter!.) God appears to be HARDWIRED into the brain: (http://www!.bbc!.co!.uk/science/horizon/200!.!.!.
So asking what a non-conscious entity that may be PROGRAMMED to be a theist believes is like asking are cat's atheists!.

Well, this is no question indeed!Www@QuestionHome@Com

A new baby has come from God they are all miracles and were meant to be born, I believe each child will have a certain place in society and the time of their birth is calculated!.
The parents of that child could be atheist or believers, the child will take from that until its old enough to question!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Atheist!. The baby hasn't been introduced to any doctrine!.

Think of it in this metaphor!.

You got a brand new computer, it hasn't even been loaded with any software!. You turn it on and depending which software you choose to upload, it will affect how the computer behaves!. Religion is like software!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

A new born child is of course a Theist according to the child's parents & is an Atheist from an Atheist's point of view!. If a child could talk or were able to answer, I'm sure that innocent creature would have to answer, " Theism!? Atheism!? Is that substitute of mom's breast feeding!?Oh, I prefer both!" Www@QuestionHome@Com

A child is born almost blank of mind!. Yes atheist parents are most likely to have children who become atheist, and Christian parents are most likely to have children who become Christian!. What is the bit about calculating!? Www@QuestionHome@Com

Clearly they are born Atheist, as they have no concept of god!. If the parents indoctrinate them with dogmatic religion than by their own intelligence its possible to reverse and become atheist again!. If not another religious fool is brought into existence!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Newborns are atheists - meaning they lack beliefs!. They don't have the mental ability to hold such beliefs, and are therefore atheist!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Neither!. A baby doesn't understand the concept of god, so he/she cannot decide whether he/she believes in god or not!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

They are agnostic!. Duh!Www@QuestionHome@Com