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Religions > Atheism |
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"Ahn Fyuh Wi Dizayah" |
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08 Jan 2004 08:25:23 PM |
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Does God Exist? |
The problem here is that it's a loop. You either assume it is not
fictitious, and become a believer because once you assume that "x=true" for
whatever x is, you're a believer and perfect fodder for religion or Internet
Nazism.
If you do not believe, you have assumed it is either fictitious or not
relevant, and my preference is for the latter. Religion is something like
the SCA, drugs, Civil War reenactment, charades, mimes, and so forth. It is
another world for people to play in. But should our leaders be spouting this
stuff? And our schools, ideologies, and values founded upon it?
http://bbs.*****.com/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=002127
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Pro-War religious fanatics in government:
Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Lieberman, Ridge, Cheney and
Bush
http://www.geocities.com/g848138/
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| User: "Mekkala" |
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| Title: Re: Does God Exist? |
09 Jan 2004 01:01:30 PM |
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On 08 Jan 2004, "Ahn Fyuh Wi Dizayah"
<ahn-fyuh-wi-dizayah@thegreatslashtubitch.org> screwed up his face,
groaned, pushed hard, and farted out the following message in
news:nioLb.8064$1F4.5448@fe2.texas.rr.com:
The problem here is that it's a loop. You either assume it is not
fictitious, and become a believer because once you assume that
"x=true" for whatever x is, you're a believer and perfect fodder for
religion or Internet Nazism.
If you do not believe, you have assumed it is either fictitious or not
relevant, and my preference is for the latter. Religion is something
like the SCA, drugs, Civil War reenactment, charades, mimes, and so
forth. It is another world for people to play in. But should our
leaders be spouting this stuff? And our schools, ideologies, and
values founded upon it?
http://bbs.*****.com/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=002127
While I agree with your post here, I couldn't disagree more with the
general beliefs of the people who frequent the *****.com forums. Those
folks are more irrational than theists, even, and they have no
conception whatsoever of rational ethics or the meaning of morality.
They seem to find the greatest good in discarding any rational
guidelines to which they ought to adhere, and the result, were most
humans this type of people, would be similar to what happens when the
technicians in a nuclear power station decide to wantonly discard all
rules.
Nihilism is the other extreme from theism, and is even more potentially
destructive.
--
Mekkala, Atheist #2148
"Atheism is ... the bed-rock of sanity in a world of madness."
--Emmett F. Fields
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| User: "Libertarius" |
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| Title: Re: Does God Exist? SOME DO |
09 Jan 2004 04:55:24 PM |
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Some do, some don't.
Jupiter and Mars do exist, even if most of us no longer call them
"GODS".
The "God of Spinoza" (so called by Einstein) DOES exist, even
if most of us don't call NATURE, the UNIVERSE "GOD".
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