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Originally posted by duckznutz
BBtB,
You make no sense. NOT beleiving in something doesn't make one 'religious'. If I accept only scientific facts then that is NOT a religion. I understand that gravity causes an apple to fall. That is NOT a religion! You fail to understand the concept of 'belief'. To believe in something you have to have no proof of whether it is true . . if you knew something to be true then it would simply be a fact. 'Belief' requires uncertainty. Where there is certainty there is NO religion . . . . . . . . I choose to recognise only scientific facts and therefore I am not religious. There are a cast number of questions to which I do not know the answer . . . but I am not so arrogant as to 'make up' the answer to the big questions just mask my insecurities.
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With all do respect, YOU are the one that does not understand. All I am trying to say is that no matter what you believe you believe in SOMETHING. And that belief IS your religion. For something to be a religion it does NOT have to be believed by anyone else. It can be your own personal beliefs. I am saying that those who deny they have a religion, or for a better word belief system, are the ones who are truly in the dark. What I am saying is there is no way to prevent a belief system from interacting with a person. The original question was should we try to block children from a belief system untill they are old enough to weigh all of the consequences. All I am saying is it doesn't matter. The act of blocking more traditional religions from them such as christanity and islam would do nothing more then force another belief on them. Most likely in our world today it would be secular humanism although there are still other possiblitys. And I am sorry to inform you of this but "accepting only scientfic facts" is a religion as well. You still have the original guidelines as I said in my original post. You still have thoughts on good,heaven,hell and all other religious type things.
Also belief does NOT have to be in something that can not be proven. You are confusing believing in something and having faith in something. Believing in something is mearly accepting it as true. Wether it can be proven, in your eyes, or not. Of course everyone who believes in something blieves it can be proven. Some of us know that some just can not see beyond the physical. Two more things that I want to add. One is, I am not christian. I WAS raised christian (sorta..) but right now I am an athiest. I do keep an open mind though. And two, I am not saying secular humanism is bad or an unaccaptable choice. I just think people should realize that that IS a choice and the one they made. I just get tired of people who know knoweldge of what a religion is saying how they are not religous when they are in fact engrossed in it.