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"Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> "Smiler" <Smiler@Joe.King.com> wrote in message 
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>> "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
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>>> "Steve O" <nospamhere@thanks.com> wrote in message 
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>>>> <hhyapster@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>>>>> On Jul 11, 7:04 am, rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Jul 9, 7:31 pm, "Steve O" <nospamh...@thanks.com> wrote:
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>>>>>> > "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message 
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>>>>>> > >> IME, children are naturally credulous. ?We pick explanations 
>>>>>> > >> that fit the
>>>>>> > >> available facts. ?If our environment acts as if Santa Claus is 
>>>>>> > >> real and
>>>>>> > >> we
>>>>>> > >> have no evidence to doubt that assertion, we believe.- Hide 
>>>>>> > >> quoted text -
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>>>>>> > >> - Show quoted text -
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>>>>>> > > Or, like Steve O's little boy, if the parents say there is no 
>>>>>> > > God,
>>>>>> > > they try to believe what they hear their parents say.
>>>>>> > > Robert B. Winn
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>>>>>> > You obviously weren't listening.
>>>>>> > I haven't told him there is no God.
>>>>>> > I'm sure, like his sister, he can make his own mind up later on 
>>>>>> > that.
>>>>>> > I just hope I can equip him with the critical thinking skills 
>>>>>> > required to
>>>>>> > come to that decision.
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>>>>>> > --
>>>>>> > Steve O
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>>>>>> So you are saying that you son does not know you are an atheist.
>>>>>> That is certainly very open minded.
>>>>>> Robert B. Winn
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>>>> You just don't listen.
>>>> My son is two years old- he doesn't know what an atheist is.
>>>> His sister who is 9, understands, and considers herself to be an 
>>>> atheist.
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>>> How horrible for you..  I can see it now -- sprog hits puberty and 
>>> teenage rebel phase, refuses to wear makeup, won't shag pimply boyfriend 
>>> or get a tattoo, and declares her firm intention to enter a convent over 
>>> Friday fish....
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>> At least he won't have to listen to rap 'music' played at full volume!
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> Well, neither would full-volume plain chant or the collected speeches of 
> Pope John Paul Aye-Aye leave me in rapture ...
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Me neither, but those would be *slightly* more tollerable than rap.
Plain chant = The screams of tortured 'souls' in 'hell'?
I can turn my mind off for the Papal babble, without any difficulty.

Smiler,
The godless one
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