Re: QUESTION

"Midjis" <midwinter_m@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:1192789801.219216.14000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Pastor Frank wrote:
>>
>>     Not necessarily! Only those looking for answers will take the step
of
>> checking out the meaning of proprietary religious words.
>
> Almost exactly my point: someone 'looking for answers' with and within
> a particular belief system is, for whatever reason, already feeling
> drawn to that belief system.
>
    That would cause apoplectic laughter among all atheist who read 
scripture looking for dirt.

>> Atheists generally just assume the word god means some concrete created

>> object
>
> Quite aside from the point already made that atheists don't 'assume'
> any form for God at all because they don't believe in God - however
> you define It - you do plenty of assuming of your own, "Pastor".  This
> is particularly true in light of your own recent concession that God
> can mean different things to different people.  It's a matter of
> historical record that you have no concept of what an atheist actually
> is.  Time and again you've accused me - wrongly - of atheism simply
> because I don't conform to your view of 'God' or your religious
> specifications, and because you believe that 'non-Christian' amounts
> to 'atheist'.
>
    We can only know whether you are a theist when you in fact name and 
advocate your God, which you haven't to my knowledge. Exclusively tra****ng

other people's gods is an atheist penchant. As far as knowing what an 
atheist is, I should know, for I was brought up atheist and remained one
for 
most of my life.
    Tell us what makes you such an expert on atheism? Is it because you
are 
one now? Or is your theism self-invented, perhaps similar to that of 
Libertarius, whose god is the cosmos?

> As an aside, it's sometimes interesting to stand in the middle and see
> how two opposing extremes each take on the characteristics of the
> other.  Where "Pastor" Frank here appears convinced that "atheist" and
> "non-Christian" mean the same thing, so there are militant atheists
> who happily assume that "religious" and "Christian" are identical in
> meaning.
>
> [Snip boilerplate]
> 



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