Re: Did you "Choose to Believe," or "Choose not to believe"?

"G-Ride" <grideholdthespam42@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Fred Stone" <fstone69@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "G-Ride" <grideholdthespam42@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "raven1" <quoththeraven@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> On Tue, 13 May 2008 18:30:26 +0100, Therion Ware
>>>> <autodelete@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>On 13 May 2008 17:26:15 GMT, Fred Stone <fstone69@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>wrote:
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>>>>>>Therion Ware <autodelete@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you're an atheist, do you think you "chose" the become an
>>>>>>> atheist?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Quite the opposite. I tried very hard, between age 15 and 20 or so,
>>>>>>to "choose" to be a Christian, and just couldn't manage to convince
>>>>>>myself that I believed any more.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks for that. In due course would you be prepared to go in to 
more
>>>>>detail?
>>>>
>>>> Yet Fred has absolutely no problem convincing himself to believe
>>>> every word that comes from the Bush Administration. Amazing.
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>>>
>>> Fred shouldn't claim to be an atheist.  He has a god.
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>> G-Ride shouldn't claim to be an atheist. He has deified George W. 
Bush.
>> As the Devil.
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> lol.  Like I said, Fredo shouldn't claim to be an atheist.  He gets all 
> riled up when you mention his god.
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Lol. G-Ride gets all riled up when I refute his claims about his Devil.

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Fred Stone
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"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to 
rule." - H L Mencken