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I hope no one minds - but for consistency I've removed the french spacing in the article, and I've also reworded the intro a bit for accuracy based off a few links I got from dictionary.com--[[User:Iduan|I]][[User_talk:Iduan|Duan]] 17:39, 4 December 2007 (EST)

: What do you mean by "french spacing"? [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 08:01, 5 December 2007 (EST)

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== Children's Beliefs ==

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I think the segment about "children repeating what their parents tell them" is, at best, poorly worded. I would posit that one's belief in a statement which they do not comprehend is, at best, weak and un-tenable, though, as the article states, it is far from a proof that the stated belief is false. A parallel can be drawn to liberal deceit in public schools; children may be indoctrinated into a system of false, liberal beliefs, based on what they've heard from their teachers. While their belief is not going to be absolutely false all of the time, the belief is, at best, misguided, as their belief is effectively based on hearsay, rather than logic and evidence. A person who grows up "believing" in the power of Jesus Christ to save, based only on the observed belief of their parents, does not have a true personal, powerful relationship with Christ, because they never really "chose" to enter into a relationship with Him. Rather, they simply accept that what they are told about His power, which leads to lazy Christianity. This is related to the "appeal to authority" fallacy, in that the words of some other entity are taken as valid, simply because of their position. If a five year-old is walking down the street and a wise-looking person says "Grapes will save your life because they are magical," and the child eats a healthy amount of grapes for the rest of their life, the belief in the magic power of grapes did not protect the child, even though the anti-oxidant properties of grapes may have prevented some harm. Unfortunately, religious beliefs, such as the acceptance of Christ as savior, do not work quite this way. Simply believing that "Jesus Saves" because someone said so will not save one's soul. One has to come to this belief themselves for it to be worthwhile.

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Basically, I want to edit that part, but I wanted to post here first. [[user:JakeW|JakeW]]

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