Re: Selling Points of the Major Religions

possum wrote:
> "beelzebub" <yank_ees_suck@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>
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> On May 12, 9:43 pm, Free Lunch <lu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>> 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,
> 
> Such as?  Either you believe in god or you don't.  And if 
> you don't
> believe, THAT is your belief. Stop playing idiot semantic 
> games,
> unless you really are that much of an idiot.
> 
>> but you are just playing Humpty
>> Dumpty and will never admit that all of this nonsense you 
>> are spouting
>> comes from your religious foolishness.
> 
> I'm an agnostic, genius.
> 
> so what?
> 
> possum
> ps do you post as the delusion of dork, sometimes?
> 
> --
> atheism  /aythi-iz’m/
> (n) the belief that God does not exist. --Oxford English 
> Dictionary
> 
> belief (n)
> 1 a feeling that something exists or is true, especially one 
> without
> proof.
> 2 a firmly held opinion.
> 3 (belief in) trust or confidence in.
> 4 religious faith.
> 
> hypocrisy
> (n) the practice of claiming to have higher standards or 
> beliefs
> than is the case.

can I not believe in the flying spaghetti monster,
without *believing* in my not-believing?