Re: Selling Points of the Major Religions

On May 13, 5:15 pm, Andy W <vor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 13 May, 05:32, beelzebub <yank_ees_s...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On May 12, 9:43 pm, Free Lunch <lu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >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.
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> > > Of course there is an alternative,
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> > 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.
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> > > but you are just playing Humpty
> > > Dumpty and will never admit that all of this nonsense you are
spouting
> > > comes from your religious foolishness.
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> > I'm an agnostic, genius.
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> I've seen people use several different definitions when they use that
> term about themselves so can you please clarify which one you're
> using?

Sure.  I believe that the existence of god is presently unknown.  It
may be knowable, but that fact itself is unknowable.  More information
is needed.

(I have heard this described as mild agnosticism, but I despise that
term.  I am an agnostic in the tradition of Thomas Huxley. "In matters
of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which
are not demonstrated or demonstrable.")


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> And just to avoid any possible ambiguity:
> Do you believe that a god or gods exist? Yes or no.
> Do you believe that a god or gods does not exist? Yes or no.
>
> Andy

These questions have no meaning to me, both involve faith.  I neither
believe nor disbelieve without evidence, and I have none.