I don't understand the definition of atheism...
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From: Bard
Date: Aug 20, 2006 11:26 PM
Thanks for the add I guess. Can't say I agree with you, but I support freedom of speech quite furiously, so power to you all. I have just one question. Are you agnositic or athiest? I ask only because in my humble opinion, Athiests are just as stupid as the fundamentalist Christians because there really isn't any defintitive proof that in some form, a higher being doesn't exist. I admit that being a Christian is extremely irrational, but that's kinda the whole point. We believe. Belief isn't true or false, it's just there. The instant that you prove something in religion, it ceases to be an object of faith and becomes fact. Listen, I hate evangelism and I agree with most of your views, but just stop for one second and think. Do you know for a fact that a God doesn't exist? Again, thanks for the add.
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"I ask only because in my humble opinion, Athiests are just as stupid as the fundamentalist Christians..."
AthEists are not stupid. Here's a short list of those you just insulted:
Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Aldous Huxley, Andrew Carnegie, Isaac Asimov, Ernest Hemingway, Arthur C. Clarke, Charles Darwin, Ayn Rand, Bengamin Franklin, Dave Mathews, Carl Sagan, Bertrand Russel, Billy Joel, Voltaire, Frank Zappa, Galileo, Nietzsche, George Bernard Shaw, etc. from http://www.wonderfulatheistsofcfl.org/Quotes.htm
Btw, you and I, both, as everyone on this planet were born A-theist.
"Belief isn't true or false, it's just there."
I believe in the invisible pink unicorn(IPU). True or false? Hmm...maybe you got something there. What I believe is IPU -this could be true, but is there a IPU? No. The IPU is false. Hence, you believe in God--true. Is there a god?--no. Your belief is therefore false. n+(-n)=0.
*sigh* I wonder if this person even pays attention to what we say here. If he did, he'd realize that the question is ridiculous as he has yet to define what he means by "God" in such a way that would be capable of being verified independantly of wishful thinking. Course, when he says this...
Not sure how you can be "extremely" irrational, I figure you either are or aren't, but anyway... that he's willing to admit to the un-reality of his beliefs simply shows that the reaction he desires is for us not to take him seriously. So I won't.
Every one of your relationships to man and to nature must be a definite expression of your real, individual life corresponding to the object of your will. -Erich Fromm
I went to send Bard a message and this is what I got:
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atheists don't believe the claims of theists (on theism)... that simple.
there really isn't proof that santa claus doesn't exist...
there really isn't proof that invisible pink unicorns don't exist...
does that mean they do exist?
do you know for a fact that the FSM doesn't exist?
do you know for a fact that santa claus doesn't exist?
A-Theist.....A means without, Theist means belief in a deity or group of dieties......You are an athiest when it comes to the greek gods, or the god of allah, am I right? You are without belief of those gods, and yet you criticize us for not believing in your god. There are two types of faith, one is based on evidence, the other is not. I have faith that the sun will rise tomorrow based on earlier observations, but those that are not based on anything are irrational, and I prefer to stay away from irrationality thank you. I don't believe in wompas, because there is no proof, or unicorns, or dragons, and hence, I know they don't exist. The same reasoning goes with god. Any god.