[ExI] de Waal

[Dave Sill]

On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 10:32 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> John Clark wrote:
>
>By the teen years they no longer take it for granted that what adults tell
> them is true, but by then its too late, the damage has been done and they
> will believe ridiculous religious crap for the rest of their life without
> question. And they will teach the exact same bullshit to their children.
>
> I think this is seriously mistaken - no , just flat wrong.  However, I am
> no longer interested enough in this conversation to do the research to
> prove this very wrong, though if you are, and you get data supporting this
> extremist view, I will be happy to read it.  Not exactly a proponent of
> free will, are you?
>

I'm not sure what you think is wrong or how free will is involved, but
there's abundant, obvious evidence that children learn and believe
"ridiculous religious crap" from their parents.

-Dave
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