Salutatio Fredric!
13-Apr-98, Fredric Rice wrote to Richard Meic
          Subject: ATHEISM v FIDEISM
  >> FR> By any definition, everyone is born not believing in gods and
  >> FR> goddesses. Ergo, everyone is born an atheist.
  >> I'll have to stand with Bob on this one.  Atheism is not
  >> agnostism. Atheism is the "non-acceptance" of any deity(s)
  >> existance.  Agnostism is simply the lack of knowledge of such.
 FR> No, atheism is the lack of deity beliefs.  Everyone is born an
 FR> atheist.                                   
 
Well it seems that we are all born as neither!
atheism: belief that no God exists.
A belief requires at least some knowledge of the subject.  Seeming how
we are born with no knowledge at all we are not even born atheist.
agnosticism: belief that nothing can be known of God/gods.
It also seems that I was wrong about the definition of agnosticism and
that it too requires a pre-existing knowledge of a sort as well.
 Dicere...
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Richard Meic
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