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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 
>>>>> > news:db1c5671-b400-4028-8821-
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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
>>>>>
>>>>> > 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
>>>>>
>>>>> 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!

Well, neither would full-volume plain chant or the collected speeches of 
Pope John Paul Aye-Aye leave me in rapture ...