#10 — Richard Dawkins | Outgrowing God
Within Reason
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The Definition of Atheism
I don't want to be accused of indoctrinating children obviously. I mean clearly a newborn baby doesn't believe anything and so in that sense the human baby is an atheist but that's a rather pedantic thing. To call a child an atheist child is rather like calling a child a Catholic child because it puts a label on the child. And if we are defining atheism as simply a lack of belief in God then consistently I think we are committed to saying that a child at the moment of being born is an atheist. Most people won't get that. They'll be oh there you are trying to drive atheism into children. You're trying to take our children and make them into atheists or say
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