Traditional Atheism Pre-Curious (Blue)

[integral]

This is a interesting perspective that I recently came across that surprised me. I was interacting with a atheist and I made the assumption that they derived there athiesm through a logical process of science or a rejection of religion or some kind of philosophy. A rational lens.

surprisingly how they defined their atheism was simply a lack of religion.

No Religion. That’s it!

They grew up in an environment that did not teach them or give them a religion but their minds did not develop beyond traditional values.

So a religious person would receive a religion from birth as part of their  indoctrination  but a traditional atheist simply did not receive an indoctrination, but they still grew up in a traditional culture. Where they had very little in rational development and are mostly stuck in pre-rational thinking for the majority of their beliefs but none of those beliefs are tied to a higher religion.

and surprisingly I think a lot of people fall into this category! it’s not that they derive atheism through “ I don’t know, we don’t know, it’s unknowable” instead their concept is identity “I don’t have a religion”, And that’s the full extent of its sophistication. The reason I find this mind blowing is because the pre-curious mind does not examine anything too closely, so when it lacks a foundation in religion they simply don’t even question the basic foundation of life. There is no mystery to them! They don’t see a potential mystery they don’t even question it! Traditional can be a type of pre-curiosity.

Edited July 12 by integral

[Hojo]

Also I dont think its just not being indoctrinated I also think they had their metaphysical reality taken from them by being lied to about Santa. Santa is depicted as God your parents gaslight you into a scenario where you are using purely imagination then they tell you its not real and you never will believe something without seeing it ever again as you feel like a fool and sometimes very crushed by this gaslight. Santa has the same characteristics as God so you question that and cannot be made a fool of again thats just a made up story too.