Re: Selling Points of the Major Religions

On Mon, 12 May 2008 19:55:34 -0700 (PDT), beelzebub
<yank_ees_suck@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On May 12, 7:01 pm, Free Lunch <lu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Mon, 12 May 2008 17:27:07 -0700 (PDT), beelzebub
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>> <yank_ees_s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >On May 12, 4:53 pm, Free Lunch <lu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> On Mon, 12 May 2008 13:00:08 -0700 (PDT), beelzebub
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>> >> <yank_ees_s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> >On May 11, 6:33 pm, Free Lunch <lu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> >> On Sun, 11 May 2008 15:30:34 -0700 (PDT), beelzebub
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>> >> >> <yank_ees_s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> >> >On May 11, 3:07 pm, Free Lunch <lu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> >> >> On Sun, 11 May 2008 13:54:34 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Kraus
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>> >> >> >> >Splendid.  YOU define Atheism, Mr. Atheist.
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>> >> >> >> The lack of belief in gods.
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>> >> >> >The belief that there is no god, actually.
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>> >> >> No.
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>> >> >So you believe in a god or gods?
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>> >> No.
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>> >Then as your answer indicates, you *believe* that there is no god.
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>> No.
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>You just contradicted yourself.

No. I refused to buy into you game, though. 

>> >That is not the *lack* of belief, it is a very specific, concrete
>> >belief.
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>> No.
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>It isn't debatable.  It is a fact.  Your beliefs are stated above.
>You aren't very clever, are you?

I know what I stated. What bothers me is that you falsely recast what I
stated.

>> >Atheism is a belief.
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>> No.
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>Wow.  You really are a *hell* of a debater.

You haven't demonstrated that you can even understand that. Why should I
waste my time on anything more complicated. You've already screwed up
the concept of belief.

>[Other irrelevant idiot, atheist-babble snipped.  This one is just too
>stupid to continue.  His stupidity makes my head hurt.  Hilariously,
>painfully stupid.]
>
>Bottom line:  Atheists hate to confront the fact that their beliefs
>are in fact a "belief."  What else can they be?  There is no
>alternative.

Of course there is an alternative, but you are just playing Humpty
Dumpty and will never admit that all of this nonsense you are spouting
comes from your religious foolishness.

-- 

"... There's glory for you."
 
"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said.
 
Humpty Dumpty smiles contemptuously. "Of course you don't--till 
I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'" 
 
"But glory doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument," Alice objected. 
 
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, 
"it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less." 
 
"The question is," said Alice "whether you can make words mean so 
many different things."
 
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master--that's 
all."