"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

[VGPolyglot]

Nem said:

VGPolyglot said:

I think you have to have a knowledge of the idea of God in order to be an atheist, in order to consciously/explicitly reject the belief of gods. A baby who is just born cannot be an atheist if he/she has no concept of God.

A baby is an Atheist to everything as they are born. If it's something you haven't been presented to, you obviously don't assume it exists. I do think there's probably a different term to this as Atheism only refers to the god proposition, but i think you can understand.

Notice that this goes for our ignorance as well, where we are as clueless as babies. Whatever we don't know, we don't assume is real.

 

This is making me think how funny it is that religious people really want for there to be 3 roads. A belief of the opposite. There isn't. There is only a belief and the lack of a belief. Theres no 3rd road. There's no belief of the opposite. That would be a different proposition that in itself would be illogical.

I'm not a religious person, I'm an atheist myself. However, you can't be an atheist without knowing of the idea of deities, because atheism is the explicit rejection or disbelief in the existence of gods, not the ignorance of the concept.