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Religions > Atheism |
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"*nemo*" |
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01 Apr 2004 04:46:58 AM |
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aa - QOTM winners for March 2004 |
Here are the winners for March 2004.
AQOTM: Our winner this month had a runaway victory. With 11 votes, the
award goes to Douglas Berry :
4) I was willing to give my life to defend the ideals enshrined in the
Constitution of the United States. In fact, as a soldier in the
mid-eighties, I expected to die if the balloon went up in Europe.
I wasn't going to get anything but a soldier's grave, and perhaps a
paragraph in my hometown paper. Nobody would venerate my name, and my
death would have been just another day's work for Graves Registration.
Yet I did it. With no promise of eternal godhood. I did it because I
believed in freedom.
Jesus, if he existed, was inconvenienced for a weekend and became God.
His sacrifice is non-existant compared to the one made by every soldier
who ever died nameless on some forgotten battlefield.
By: Douglas Berry
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: WhackAGod
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TQOTM: This month, our winner is an interesting, non-drooling quote.
With 8 votes the award goes to Richard Crawford:
3) As a Christian, I will happily admit that there can be no positive
logical or empirical evidence for the existence of God. It's an
assumption made on faith, reinforced by emotion and experience and
possibly revelation (I won't claim to have received any divine
revelation myself). Logic and physical evidence, however, have nothing
to do with faith. Those are for describing the physical universe.
Faith, however, is fundamentally irrational and illogical; thus no
discussion of faith or God or whatever can involve the use of logic to
prove its premises. Any attempts to "prove" that God exists just end
sounding silly to people who know how logic works.
An atheist takes a perfectly reasonable and logical point of view that
something has not been proven to exist without enough evidence to make
denial perverse (a typical atheist may not have ever been to Russia, but
it would be foolish to assume that the atheist does not believe in the
existence of Russia, unless they are a total solipsist).
By: Richard Crawford
Nominated: underground
Seconded: nemo
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Be sure to check out the archives of the Quote of the Month contests at:
http://www.mylinuxisp.com/~raymond/alt.atheism/qotm.php
As always, thanks to L. Raymond for doing the splendid job of
maintaining the web site.
Until next month -- Cheers!
--
Nemo - EAC Commissioner for Bible Belt Underwater Operations.
Atheist #1331 (the Palindrome of doom!)
BAAWA Knight! - One of those warm Southern Knights, y'all!
Charter member, SMASH!!
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Quotemeister since March 2002
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| User: "Douglas Berry" |
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| Title: Re: aa - QOTM winners for March 2004 |
01 Apr 2004 11:45:01 AM |
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Lo, many moons past, on Thu, 01 Apr 2004 10:46:58 GMT, a stranger
called by some *nemo* <nemo0037@yahoo.dieSPAM.com> came forth and
told this tale in alt.atheism
AQOTM: Our winner this month had a runaway victory. With 11 votes, the
award goes to Douglas Berry :
I'd like the thank the Academy...
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Douglas Berry Do the OBVIOUS thing to send e-mail
Atheist #2147, Atheist Vet #5
Ezekiel 13:20 "Wherefore thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows"
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: aa - QOTM winners for March 2004 |
01 Apr 2004 01:40:30 PM |
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On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:45:01 +0000 in episode
<j6lo609m2fgnt7cu4sgs62bdp0ni0mhuq8@4ax.com> we saw our hero Douglas Berry
<penguin_boy@mindOBVIOUSspring.com>:
Lo, many moons past, on Thu, 01 Apr 2004 10:46:58 GMT, a stranger called
by some *nemo* <nemo0037@yahoo.dieSPAM.com> came forth and told this tale
in alt.atheism
AQOTM: Our winner this month had a runaway victory. With 11 votes, the
award goes to Douglas Berry :
I'd like the thank the Academy...
Do they like you? Do they really like you?
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Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism,
because it is a merger of State and corporate power."
- Mussolini
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