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- From: darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice)
- Subject: Re: Monitored by islam (repost)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.041507.8630@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1992Dec9.080120.28144@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <1992Dec11.050237.25167@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:15:07 GMT
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- In <1992Dec11.050237.25167@jcnpc.cmhnet.org> mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus) writes:
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- >To paraphrase a certain prince regent, you must think I'm as thick as a whale
- >omelette. To be an atheist I require that god continue to not reveal hirself
- >to me. My atheism stems from a total lack of empirical evidence for the
- >existence of god. This is no more a "_belief_" than is the ever popular
- >aipuism that so many on this newsgroup espouse.
-
- Just because you have no evidence that God exists does not mean that God
- then necessarily *does not* exist. Of course, this is the argument
- agaist strong atheism rather than weak atheism (against which I have no
- argument).
-
- If any sort of theism is an unjustified belief, then so is strong
- atheism. That was what my point was originally, though expressed
- perhaps in a less clear way.
-
- Fred Rice
- darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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- = A poor man said to a rich one: =
- = `All my money goes on food.' =
- = `Now that's your trouble,' said the rich man. `I only =
- = spend five per cent of _my_ money on food.' =
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- = -- Idries Shah, _The Magic Monastery_ =
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