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  1. Newsgroups: alt.atheism
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au!darice
  3. From: darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice)
  4. Subject: Re: Monitored by islam (repost)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec21.040954.8330@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
  6. Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system)
  7. Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
  8. References: <1992Nov25.165131.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <1992Dec7.042438.1678@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <1992Dec7.103757.15944@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <1992Dec9.080120.28144@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <shroud.723917875@camelot>
  9. Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:09:54 GMT
  10. Lines: 22
  11.  
  12. In <shroud.723917875@camelot> shroud@camelot.bradley.edu (Gary Achenbach) writes:
  13.  
  14. >In <1992Dec9.080120.28144@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice) writes:
  15.  
  16. >>To be an atheist you require a positive _belief_ that God *does not*
  17. >>exist.  Don't tell me you don't even understand this at this elementary
  18. >>level.
  19.  
  20. >No.  To be a "strong" atheist requires a positive belief in the nonexistence
  21. >of God.  "Weak" atheism is simply the lack of positive belief in the
  22. >_existence_ of God.  There is a difference.  I cannot say with any degree
  23. >of certainty that God (or Allah, Zeus, Quetzlcoatl, etc)
  24. >does not exist, however, I see absolutely no evidence that any of the
  25. >above entities exist either.
  26.  
  27. >Sheesh.  You'd think that if people are going to be monitoring this newsgroup,
  28. >they'd read the FAQ.
  29.  
  30. Oops, sorry.  I've read the (relevant bits of the) FAQ now.
  31.  
  32.  Fred Rice
  33.  darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au   
  34.