On 21 Feb 2008 21:30:04 -0600, bob young <alaspectrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"Christopher A. Lee" wrote:
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>> On 21 Feb 2008 20:46:02 -0600, bob young <alaspectrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >"Christopher A. Lee" wrote:
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>> >> On 20 Feb 2008 22:34:02 -0600, bob young
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>> >> >DanielSan wrote:
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>> >> >> Pastor Frank said the following on 2/13/2008 11:14 PM:
>> >> >> > "Christopher A. Lee" <calee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> >> > news:lpd7r314f1a457ucm9gp2l61ovj505uu8i@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> >> >> Are you really this stupid, or just pretending?
>> >> >> >> This group was set up by atheists for atheists to discuss
atheist
>> >> >> >> issues. Is that really so hard to understand?
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>> >> >> > "Atheist issues"? What are those? Atheism is about
disbelieving what
>> >> >> > other people believe and tra****ng their beliefs as well as
flaming their
>> >> >> > person. There are no "other Issues" in atheism. "Stupid"
indeed!!!!
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>> >> >> Actually, there are, such as defending against those that would
trash
>> >> >> our individual worldviews, such as what you're doing right now.
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>> >> >Atheistic views are based on common sense logic and facts, such as
THE CHRIST
>> >> >TALE is what it says up there 'a tale'
>> >> >written by early superstitious natives.
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>> >> >Amazing how others follow like lemmings two thousand years later.
We seem to
>> >> >have an inbred need for comfort, whether it be an imgainary god or
a perfect
>> >> >partner, of either ***.
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>> >> I disagree.
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>> >> Religious "needs" are implanted in the formative years. Those of us
>> >> who never had it implanted never had the need.
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>> >I do not disagree, being well aware that relgious needs are implanted.
But where
>> >there are no religious needs humans soon feel the inbred need for
protection so
>> >they invent one. We have been fearful animals since we struggled as
early cave
>> >dwellers. This is born out by the nunber of new beliefs that spring
up from time
>> >to time and the adherents who rush to take part in them.
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>> Are you telling me that neither I nor my siblings are humsn?
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>Being human is NOT a special feature of any religion,
>it is a natural phnomenon present in most of us in varying degrees.
Were you taught to be theist as a child? Even if it didn't take?
If not please don't try to speak for those who never were.
>you should well aware of your own humanism.
>I could never know you well enough here to judge one way or the other
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>> The only one who had a pretend friend, used to ask for an extra slice
>> of cake for it, and eat it on its behalf. She knew prescicely what she
>> was doing. It was her game not her protector.
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>Yes kids do that and some grown ups too, but in a more sophisticated way
You missed the point.
NONE OF US "FELT THE INBRED NEED FOR PROTECTION SO THEY INVENTED ONE".
>> Please, pretty please, why not listen to atheists who never had it
>> implanted, who refute you by example?
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>What ? !
"where there are no religious needs humans soon feel the inbred need
for protection so they invent one"
You have been refuted by example.
Please have the courtresy to accept that instead of trying to prove me
and my siblings wrong.
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