paxonel:
just like that?

Final answer?

OtemAtum:


No, majority of believers do exactly what their pastors ask them to do without thinking twice. Or what do you think the "This Is Church, You Won't Be Needing This(Brain) is for?"

paxonel:

Because by default, every minds must have beliefs.

Maximus69:

So far so good you've not been able to prove your so called Golden Rule to be PERFECT as you initially presumed!

LordReed:


It seems you are the deluded one then because I challenge you to point out where I said religion only involves beliefs that has to do with a god.

budaatum:

That's not true. Consider:

A baby has a brain and a mind but it has no beliefs until the likes of some inculcate their own beliefs in them.

paxonel:
sorry, may be i did not put it rightly. I intented to say you atheists see religion as anything that has to do with belief in god only. But you are seeing it in another dimension today that it is not just having belief in god only, but also a belief that is very important to a person or group .
Don't you see it that way?

paxonel:
at the long run, the baby will still grow up having beliefs, we are saying the same thing.

budaatum:

After we feed the baby the beliefs, so, not by "default".

Eighteen years was the recommended age when one stops "inculcating", apparently

paxonel:
at the long run, the baby will still grow up having beliefs, we are saying the same thing.

HellVictorinho:

The effects of your experiences on your brain determine your REASONING/PERSONALITY/ASSESSMENT OF THINGS.

Maximus69:

Belief connotes TRUST!

There's nothing you can do on this planet without a measure of TRUST (BELIEF).

Of course the child will eventually grow up to trust either what his/her parents taught him, friends in school, colleagues at work or circumstances surrounding him!

Gays and Lesbians don't just develop their own mindset to start trusting (believing) in same sex, someone somewhere sometime taught them!

Let's learn a lesson from Jesus' illustration about evil spirit, when one is driven out of someone's heart it searches for where to stay but when it couldn't find any, it returns to it's former residence, but this time with seven evil spirits more powerful than itself (just in case the one who drives it out may come back) then the condition of such a person becomes worse! Matthew 12:43-45

Lesson learnt
Ones minds should be filled as in fully equipped with with spiritual things always, otherwise demons looking for places to stay will meet the place empty and possess such a person! Ephesians 6:10-17

That's how most children are demonized, and when one decides to abandon what his/her Christian parents taught him/her, their condition worsen by the day!

That's why Christian parents make sure they equip their children right from infancy (2Timothy 3:15-17} God's word likens parents to 'archers' and children 'arrows'!


Training up a child requires much strength, the archer use all his strength to pull the bow before releasing the arrow, once the arrow leaves your hand, you're no more in control, but with the energy, focus and determination you invested it will certainly go straight to where you aim! Psalms 127:3-4

budaatum:

After we feed the baby the beliefs, so, not by "default".

Eighteen years was the recommended age when one stops "inculcating", apparently

paxonel:
and after 18 years the child possibly remain a deviant what next, send him or her away to learn by experience?

paxonel:
Exactly!
Mind building of a child largely comes from the parents and the say charity begins at home.
I have seen a lot of children coming from a well brought up home but they end up becoming wayward, could that still be the fault of the parents?

paxonel:
So, this religion called atheism has a day set aside for ceremonials too?
After, they will say they don't do religious things

lol That was one of the reasons Obafemi Awolowo gave for leaving atheism in his days. Their acts, habits and everything mimics Christianity so much. They hold services, say ''prayers,'' read sermons from some book, in a worship place etc ... but not directed to a god.

He ran away from God to that lmao

Magnoliaa:


lol That was one of the reasons Obafemi Awolowo left atheism in his days, because their acts, habits and everything mimics Christianity so much. They hold services, say ''prayers,'' read sermons from some book, in a worship place etc ... but not directed to a god.

He ran away from God to that lmao

Magnoliaa:


lol That was one of the reasons Obafemi Awolowo gave for leaving atheism in his days. Their acts, habits and everything mimics Christianity so much. They hold services, say ''prayers,'' read sermons from some book, in a worship place etc ... but not directed to a god.

He ran away from God to that lmao

OtemAtum:
Bros abeg, Christians will take your speech literally and get scared to death. Abeg don't scare them o.

To the Christians out there, don't mind him o, na tonic wine den drink there o, no be blood o. And no be Satan den hail o, na Santa. Santaclaus

Magnoliaa:


lol That was one of the reasons Obafemi Awolowo gave for leaving atheism in his days. Their acts, habits and everything mimics Christianity so much. They hold services, say ''prayers,'' read sermons from some book, in a worship place etc ... but not directed to a god.

He ran away from God to that lmao

LordReed:


Its amazing how people like to believe fantastical stories. Where have you seen atheists gathering to offer prayers and read sermons?

Besides are Christians the first religious sect do these things?

Magnoliaa:


Oga, someone shared his personal experience. In an autobiography. I no get time to dey search for atheists prayer meetings - even if they do happen.

Ok. If I said atheists mimic religious activities, you'd be okay with that?

Maximus69:


The truth is God created man for just one purpose:- To serve as his representative amongst all other creatures on planet earth (God's will for man from the beginning)!

So when talking about God's will, any human who feels like debunking God all because of his own selfish reasons will find himself doing something similar to the order God gave his worshipers at that point in time!

God's will for his people Israel was to offer sacrifices on his altar, no pagan group or nation is free from offering sacrifices one way or another. The only difference is that while God's people have rules guiding his own people on how to do his will, pagan nations don't have rules guiding them on how to offer their own sacrifices, so when they meet anyone offering sacrifices they can't tell what is wrong in the manner such sacrifice is offered.

Today, God's will is for his people to speak with unbelievers, reason with them and compel them to have a chance of heart because the end is near. Please ask our friends claiming atheists, who orders them to be spending hours, days, months even years on social media trying to reason with people? This people spend their time, money and effort all in a bid to REASON with people, please who sent them?

So the only difference is, while God's people are organized and have a purpose for what they're doing, atheists are purposeless in their own mission. And since their mission is hopeless, they turn to insults, abuses, ridicules even cursing people out of frustration!

Magnoliaa:


Oga, someone shared his personal experience. In an autobiography. I no get time to dey search for atheists prayer meetings - even if they do happen.

Ok. If I said atheists mimic religious activities, you'd be okay with that?