"Christopher A. Lee" wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2008 21:30:04 -0600, bob young <alaspectrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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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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> >> wrote:
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> >> >"Christopher A. Lee" wrote:
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> >> >> On 20 Feb 2008 22:34:02 -0600, bob young
<alaspectrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> wrote:
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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]
> wrote in message
> >> >> >> > 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?
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> > "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!!!!
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Actually, there are, such as defending against those that would
trash
> >> >> >> our individual worldviews, such as what you're doing right now.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >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.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >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 ***.
> >> >>
> >> >> I disagree.
> >> >>
> >> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
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> Were you taught to be theist as a child? Even if it didn't take?
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> If not please don't try to speak for those who never were.
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> >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.
> >
> >Yes kids do that and some grown ups too, but in a more sophisticated
way
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> You missed the point.
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> NONE OF US "FELT THE INBRED NEED FOR PROTECTION SO THEY INVENTED ONE".
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> >> Please, pretty please, why not listen to atheists who never had it
> >> implanted, who refute you by example?
> >
> >What ? !
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> "where there are no religious needs humans soon feel the inbred need
> for protection so they invent one"
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> You have been refuted by example.......
.....it has been proven by example all you have to do is remove your
blinkers [blinders]
take a look outside and study the plethora of other religions, past and
present.
ALL religions are made up by man. Prove me wrong.
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> Please have the courtresy to accept that instead of trying to prove me
> and my siblings wrong.
You could well be for all I know
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