There is such a thing as implicit atheism: the lack of belief in gods owing to the lack of exposure to the concept of gods. Young children are implicit atheists, and possibly some isolated tribespeople.

If there were no religion, and never had been, we’d all be implicit atheists until someone invented the concept of a god from scratch.

Posted: December 6th 2008

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If religion was never practiced and there never was any god belief in recorded human history, there would be no atheism. Just as there is no ateapotism (as far as I know there is no sizable number of people who ever believed that a celestial teapot is orbiting around the earth).

If belief in a personal god or gods were rejected everywhere in human communities, then all humans would be atheists. However, in that scenario since atheism would be a given neither would it or god belief be discussed much (as in Nordic countries and France at present) except for focusing on the historical relationship between theism and atheism as one does with the historical relationship between geocentrism and heliocentrism.

Posted: December 6th 2008

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