On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:32:37 -0500, Free Lunch wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:22:11 -0400, in alt.atheism "Pastor Frank"
> <PF@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in <8cc02$48143012$d1d89a57$19357@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
>>"Brian E. Clark" <reply@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>news:MPG.227c60f43f23b02d98b0be@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> In article <adb3a$48117c90$d1d89a73$3496@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Pastor Frank
>>> said...
>>>>
>>>> "Let me" guess. You are an atheist, are you not? How do I know?
>>>
>>> Well, perhaps you recall the several conversations you and I have held
>>> on alt.atheism over the years.
>>>
>>>> I know because you only list things which are NOT, i.e. "doesn't
>>>> transform", and "do not add", and "you are not..." etc.
>>>
>>> So what? I wasn't writing a treatise. I wasn't aiming to lay out a
>>> world view. I was pointing out one little problem, I.e., the absurdity
>>> treating emotion and earnestness as if they boosted the truth value of
>>> a claim.
>>>
>> The problem is, that theism is negative from the ground up, and
>> that's
>>why I abandoned atheism.
>
> I agree that many people use their religions as a club to attack others,
> but I don't see how that explains why you 'abandoned atheism'.
>
We all need to have faith in something.
Most people want to know what that something is.
Atheists have blind faith in denying its existence.
So, you need to abandon atheism to figure out
what that something is.
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