Marya, the only thing
lacking with your atheism is universal backing.
Not exact matches
Atheism is simply a
lack of belief in god and says nothing about how we raise our children (other than implying that we don't brain - wash them
with religious indoctrination).
I'm working on a hypothesis that
atheism at root has nothing to do
with belief or
lack of belief, but rather results from refusing to engage
with certain modes of cognition and behavior.
But, on the other hand, it is quite unjustified for theists to hold that we must tolerate or swallow the paradoxes or explain them away (by feats of ingenuity so subtle, and verbal methods so remote from intuitive insight or definite logical structures, that only deity could know
with any assurance what was taking place), giving as justification the claim that the alternative position of
atheism is even more paradoxical (
lacking, it may be urged, any principle of cosmic explanation at all).
I don't entirely disagree
with the posts above, but my understanding is that for plain - old main - stream
atheism, it is best defined by talking about belief versus
lack of belief.
Now, by the time they're 6 or 7, yes, they're buying into whatever faith or
lack thereof surrounds them; whether that be Islam, Christianity,
Atheism, we tend to go
with the flow at that age... but it's there.
And for the record
atheism has nothing to do
with anything besides a
lack of a belief in a divine being, other than that whether or not a person is for capital punishment or not, gay rights or not, etc, has nothing to do
with atheism.
You mistake
atheism with lack of imagination or sense of whimsey.