@mjangelvortex  
Yes, babies are blank slates, they don’t believe in God, which means they’re atheist. Most atheists are agnostic, they don’t claim that there is no God, they’re just not convinced that there is one.

@Antonyourknee  
Humans, dolphins, elephants and chimpanzees are all just animals.

@Antonyourknee  
Babies can’t believe in a God, because they aren’t capable of understanding anything like this yet, so they’re atheist because they lack belief in God.

@Meanlucario  

 
Atheism is simply a lack of belief in a God, not a belief that there is no God.

@Background Pony #B3B9  
how can artificial intelligences hate atheists if they aren’t even remotely complex enough to understand such concepts yet?

someone mentions religion  
debate about religions happen  
participants don’t know AIs don’t like atheists and nobody knows why  
seriously, look it up, “they” don’t just don’t like “the lack of belief in God” as they word it

@Cyan Lightning  
Geez i think that much times in life when i see girls on social media cry becasue they gained a small weight

If you think life is pain you’re living it wrong, and I’m terribly sorry for you.

@Xhydralisk  
Yup, we like MLP now because characters faces many life and mentally threatening difficulties and challenges, which are mixes of fantasy and real-life combined.

@mjangelvortex  
Elephants have religions????

@Background Pony #7141  
I agree. New born babies, even very first humans are likely that way, until some of humans are conscious and swallowed in fear enough to create religions and try to spread it, only works to those who haven’t have firm believes about nature’s truth of balance. Those who have firm believes about nature’s truth of balance and firm autonomy to live with clear life’s mission statements can be happy atheists, I think.

@mjangelvortex  
Interesting. Id like to think that such practices by these creatures indicates they recognize that forces beyond their or their groups control(most animals seem to not perceive a world beyond their own actions)have influence in their lives and these efforts are means to in their mind gain some control over those forces whether they be nature and/or some God like entity. That’s a definite sign of intelligence beyond animalistic instinct like howling at the moon,I wonder if dolphins can commit such rituals as well.

You say as if this isn’t commmon knowledge pinkie

It is

Ah yes, my friend nihilistic memes, we meet again. /s
 
@TexasUberAlles  
Not only that but Disney was thinking about making it 3 seasons long. Also, Alex almost had it end on Season 1. If it wasn’t for Jon Stewart (who was a fan of the series and contacted Alex Hirsch), the show may have not have gotten a second season at all.
 
@Meanlucario  
@Antonyourknee  
Those are some good points. Babies are basically blank slates and aren’t mentally and emotionally as advanced compared to older people.
 

 
Funny enough, I recently read up on how some higher intelligent animals like chimps and elephants may engage in ritualistic behaviors similar to religion.
 
In the case with elephants, there were some reported incidents of them doing behaviors that could be interrupted as them worshiping the moon. They study the moon’s phases, they take tree branches and wave them at the waxing moon, take ritual baths during the full moon, and avoid the moon when they do something wrong.

@Background Pony #7141  
Atheism is the belief that there is no divine being, babies aren’t aware of the possibility of divine beings, so they can’t be atheist.

@Background Pony #7141  
Babies have no belief in anything since they are not yet capible of having any understanding of the world except maybe pain(thus life is pain as pinkie claims),what I’m saying is we cannot give babies a position on the intracy of existence. God can mean many things,it can be the Judeo-Christian God or just a idea of an powerful supernatural entity that holds influence in the world. Since Newborns are in fact dependent on (in their view) God like parents who protect and comfort them,then perhaps babies can in fact belive in God since they must conceptualize thier place in existance in relation to their parents somehow and as they form that Conceptualiztion are they then still atheist or are they now “believers”.
 
Now With that logic when does a child who is supposedly born an atheist stop becoming a atheist? When they are taught about a God,do they go back to a “natural state” if they become an atheist? Are animals atheist since they too cannot belive in anything at least to human knowledge. Can we claim babies have other postions on life,such as do not know what gender they are? These all silly questions but ones that come about once you make claim that everyone is born With a predisposed view on things.
 
Basicly I think babies are in a priomoral state where beyond certain basic animal instincts,they know the world only in a extremely vague and incorporeal manner ,a fluid reality which can change rapidly as they learn and experance new things,giving a new perception of life each day. In this view I don’t think it’s approprate to claim they hold any natural positions that can be compared to a philosophy of life like atheism or theism. They do not believe or believe in God or in much of the world for that matter for God is no more known to them at that point than the ocean floor. They will most likely never see either in their entire lives but can we claim that babies are born to lack belife in equal measure God and the ocean floor,someone will have to teach them both concepts after all. I think to try to claim they have particular stance on life’s matters with so little interaction with life itself to be quite silly if you’ll forgive me for saying so.

@Background Pony #21DC  
it’s one of the four noble truths of buddhism that life is suffering, actually, so you’re 100% right.

@Antonyourknee  
Do babies believe in God? No, so they’re atheist. Atheism isn’t the belief that there are no gods. You don’t have to know what a God is to lack belief in it, but you do if you are to have a belief about it.

@Background Pony #7141  
Everyone is born ingnorant of the world,I don’t think you could give a newborn anysort of denomination. You cannot belive or not belive what you don’t know.

@Meanlucario  
Everyone is born atheist.

Well, yeah. If life was easy, it would be pointless.  

“Life’s a piece of shit, when you look at it.  
Life’s a lie and death’s a joke it’s true.  
You’ll see it’s all a show, keep ’em laughing as you go.  
Just remember that the last laugh is on you~”
 
—Life of Brain, Monthy Python.