Re: QUESTION

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:08:51 -0700, Midjis <midwinter_m@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:

>On 13 Oct, 05:18, Al Klein <ruk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> No, neither one would discuss religion if theists didn't bring it up.
>
>Surely you have to appreciate, though, that the world has only the
>assertions of those atheists that this is the case?

No.  In a society in which there's no concept of gods, no one brings
it up.  People don't sit around discussing how they don't believe in
gods when no one makes a claim to believe in one.

>  The claim cannot
>be tested, because it's unlikely that we could get everyone on both
>sides to stop railing at each other long enough to see who starts it
>off again.

How many Greeks, prior to 100BC, talked about not believing in Jesus?

>So while atheists claim the moral high ground on the basis that
>they're only 'reacting' to what the evil theists do, the claim is
>based only on the atheists' own assertions.

So please describe how a discussion about gods would come about in a
society that's completely atheistic (lacking any belief in any god).
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