Why don't babies believe in God?

But wouldn't the babies see it's parents as being God ?

Surely their love would be a heavenly Love

Maybe

How could any of us possibly know what a baby believes, and how it perceives reality? All we really know is, babies can't verbally communicate what they're thinking and feeling. And they don't have a way of intellectually + verbally understanding and making sense of concepts like "God", "atheism", "theism", etc.

But... that in and on itself DOES not mean they believe, or do not believe! They could be atheists. Or they could be feeling a very strong connection with this higher state/place/thing, that some people call God! Or it could vary considerably from baby to baby... (That would be my guess, actually.)

Just because you can't INTELLECTUALLY conceptualize something, that doesn't mean you can't still be experiencing it at all sorts of other levels! And spiritiuality, at least to me, was never an intellectual thing anyway! Just because you can't put a label to something, like for instance the color red, and verbally explain to people what it is, that doesn't mean you can't still be seeing it, and experiencing it! Which, again, in terms of deep mystical experience and such, I find language and labels, too, tend to just get in the way, and remove us from the real, ineffable, inexplicable reality of it all! When you put words to something that expansive and unfathomable, that... Everything, you are basically just limiting and tainting your own experience of it, in accordance with your own human-centric notions and neurology!

So... I think actually, in a very real sense, it is possible that babies are far more spiritually advanced than most adults! That they've got a very special connection with the Infinite, that most people cannot even begin to fathom! Which, unfortunately, gradually gets lost over time, as they are socialized into this world, taught language, taught how to see themselves as separate egos, taught that "this" isn't "that", and that "me" isn't "you"... Taught to see God in this weirdly separate, anthropomorphic kind of way, with infinite amounts of human biases, likes and dislikes, and encouraged to either accept THAT particular concept of it as the real deal, or reject it and become an atheist...

Poor sods. And poor us, who have been through all of that, and now seem to think we're supposed to connect with God using the intellect, and using language to limit and define what it could be! (At least most of us, anyway... Or no one would be arguing that all babies are atheists, just by virtue of not having language, and a readily developed intellect!)

..I rest my case! Although I'm pretty sure I could rant about this all day... I lament how f*cked up this society is, and how deeply most people seem to have been alienated from genuine spiritual experience, and connection with the real reality behind it all! *Insert copious amount of sighs here.* :S

It takes serious indoctrination to make anyone believe in those fantasies.

Children have no knowledge of the world's mythologies, and superstition has to be taught to them.

And young, as adults won't buy the nonsense if they have reached a level of intelligence leaning toward reality.

Which ever of the tens of thousands of gods you choose, you have to force it onto the kids early, or they escape back to reality.

They don't go to church

They haven't heard the gospel

They have not read a 'holy' book

Babies do believe in God. In fact, you'll be surprised to know that the foetus in the womb prays to God for its safe deliverance and promises to glorify HIM when he/she comes into this world. But once it is out, it forgets its promise made to God. Parents have to remind the baby and help the baby.

I believed in God the moment I became of this World,

and I soon found out that someone who wanted to known as God's son ... was the very first thing in my diaper.

For the same reason no baby claims not to believe in God either, because both stances can only be claimed after certain information has been understood and recognised. Is that not already obvious?

I do not know what a baby believes in; I am not a mind reader and cannot remember back that far. However, I have believed in God for as long as I can remember.

When they're newly born, they have about three times the brain cells that they'll have as adults. True fact.

They lack an abstract imagination. They don't appear to have any sense of causality.