RapierFugue -> RE: What do you think of Aetheists? (11/14/2010 5:22:28 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Brain Barack Obama has to be an atheist if his father was an atheist. How on earth do you come to that conclusion?! Judaism is passed on through the maternal line, for a start, and I'm fairly sure some other religions do the same thing. And just because someone's parent(s) is/are atheist doesn't preclude their offspring from adopting one of several religions. In fact I’m struggling to think of a single religion that excludes people on the basis of lineage. Religions always want more followers, see. I seem to recall that Shinto requires that at least one parent be able to trace their lineage in a Shinto fashion, but Wikipedia doesn't seem to back that up, so I may have got that one wrong. Personally I'm an agnostic, and don't have any time for sky-fairies, but I have no objection to the beliefs of others, so long as they don't threaten my safety or security. Having said that, threads like this always end up as a series of "is not!", "are too!" statements, so god alone knows* why people bother. *do you see what I did there? [;)]
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