veiam said:
Status Quo - the existing state of affairs; specifically : the last actual and uncontested state of affairs that preceded a controversy and that is to be preserved by preliminary injunction In other words, the status quo was the time before religion was introduced. Number of believers doesn't mean anything. If I get everyone in the world to state that fire doesn't burn, would that make it the status quo and therefore true? Also, I was raised without the mention of anything relating to a god or religion (meaning there wa neither "god is great" nor "there is no god" in my house at all) until I was 8-ish. And then I remember my grandmother teaching me how to pray and my mom being pissy about it. I couldn't understand why my mother was so angry about it back then, but right now it makes perfect sense. In an environment where the person is not introduced to god he will simply not believe just because he has never been brainwashed into believing in something purely based on faith. |
Actually, this is a self contradicting statement, as it implies that the only way you can conceive of god is if someone else gives you teh idea, so.... where did the idea come from originally? If the idea can only come from another person, then it must have been able to be conceived of without having been given teh idea by someone else, which makes there very same statement you made false, and if it didn't originally start out being conceived by a human, then it must have been taught by "something else" initially. Which lends credibility to the idea that there is some higher power that guides humanity.
