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rbwinn wrote:
> On Jul 13, 3:48 pm, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote:
>> rbwinn wrote:
>>> On Jul 13, 8:43�am, Linda Fox <linda...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:49:43 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Jul 12, 8:25?am, Linda Fox <linda...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:20:29 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> A two year old is learning to lie or tell the truth. ?If a two year
>>>>>>> old sees its parents lie all the time, then the two year old is going
>>>>>>> to do the same thing.
>>>>>> Ho-kayyyy - tell us please, because we'd love to know, how a
>>>>>> two-year-old can tell its parents are lying when it does not know the
>>>>>> truth itself. Unless it's by watching the nose grow longer and longer.
>>>>> A two year old is concerned about what works. �If the two year old
>>>>> sees that lying is more effective in getting results than telling the
>>>>> truth, then that is what the two year old is going to start doing.
>>>>> Atheists generally reward untruth.
>>>> Right, now just go back and read again, a bit slower this time. How
>>>> does the two-year-old know - from the example of his elders - that
>>>> lying is more effective, when - are you still there? - he does not
>>>> yeat recognise it as lying?
>>>> Linda ff
>>>> In the beginning man created god in his own image- Hide quoted text -
>>> What you are claiming is that a two year old cannot tell if something
>>> is true or untrue.  I take the position that a two year old is just as
>>> capable of discerning as anyone, but might have more of a tendency to
>>> try to say the answer he believes his parent wants to hear.
>>> Robert B. Winn
>> Is that why you believe in the Bible then? because that's what YOUR
>> parents wanted to hear?. I do feel very sorry for you.- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
> 
> Well, actually I did not start reading the Bible until I was locked
> up.  I was in jail that time.  They did not allow Bibles in the
> psychiatric ward, but by then I knew enough about it to keep out of
> the atheism.

Yep. Generally a 'religious conversion' is the quickest way out of an 
American jail.

> Robert B. Winn