The idea that kids rejecting any concept produces an actual valid argument is an absurdity. The child on the billboard is probably a decade away from having a fully developed and functional frontal cortex. And she has undoubtedly never even heard of any actual theist deductive arguments, but has been seduced by the ridicule which the empty concept of the sign projects. Ridicule is an Atheist mainstay, and it is no accident that it appeals to juveniles. And those people who are stuck at the juvenile intellectual level.
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Agreed. We should make sure children do not hear of any theist concepts until they are at least eighteen years of age. To force God-beliefs onto a juvenile mind means they can never consider these beliefs logically without baggage. \
I disagree. Children should first be taught the fundamentals of disiplined thought, and should become practiced in the use of disciplined deduction, and in spotting rationalizations and informal fallacies.
Then they should be exposed to all sorts of theories with the understanding that they should study, analyze, and not decide until they are at least 28 years old.
If they make the mistake of trying to decide prematurely, they should be held to the burden of logically supporting their decision using the discipline of logic which they have likely not fully apprehended.
This poster SCREAMS authority issues lol.
"I'm getting a bit old for imaginary friends". What a joke. As if theistic belief were simply something one 'grows out of'. I consider the supreme arrogance of the people who confidently place every person who ever lived and believed in God in a box called "immature" and "so five minutes ago". And I can't help but smile. Their reason has taken a permanent rain check, and you don't need a complex series of proofs to see it.
Do they really think everyone will fall for that crap? I can understand some fool teenager diving into the pool of Freedom from Authority, but the jokers who made this propaganda... what's *their* excuse? I mean, beyond sheer egomania?
Children should all be taught to believe in God. Jesus made some clear warnings to those who would do otherwise. To the Robert Harrisons of this world, who would like to see young people brought up in a spiritual vacuum: God is real, and He will hold you accountable.
Stan, your ideal that people should only decide such things for themselves as adults with fully-developed reasoning capability runs aground on the sad fact that a large proportion of humanity, perhaps the majority, never reaches that intellectual level at all.
Especially in the case of people who equate being "rational" with uncritical acceptance of materialist dogma, of course.
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