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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 
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>>>> > >> we
>>>> > >> have no evidence to doubt that assertion, we believe.- Hide quoted 
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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....

God, I know... it's awful isn't it?
Sometimes I have to tell her to misbehave just so she'll seem normal.

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Steve O
a.a. #2240 (Apatheist Chapter)
B.A.A.W.A.
Convicted by Earthquack
Exempt from purgatory by papal indulgence



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