Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Religion and the rational fetus

Many years ago, had you been a rational fetus getting ready to come into this world, you would have prepared yourself for the fact that your parents likely had a view on religion/spirituality that they would try to pass on to you. At the time, you didn't know if they were Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Atheist, Mormon or any of about a zillion other things.

So what should you have done? Well, you should have prepared yourself for the fact they were quite possibly wrong. After being born and learning how to talk you should have placated them by appearing to go along with their views, all the time knowing you had a lot of research to do on your own. But you didn't do that, did you? Well, it's not too late.