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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:24:29 CST
- From: David James Alexander Hanley <U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <93025.012429U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Islamic proof of existence of god!!??
- References: <1993Jan19.010435.12053@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- <1993Jan19.144546.18395@bradford.ac.uk>
- <1993Jan22.080000.19786@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- <1993Jan22.195626.6207@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- <1993Jan24.000246.3516@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- In article <1993Jan24.000246.3516@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>,
- darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice) says:
- >
- >
- >>Then all the "monitors" from soc.religion.islam should leave alt.atheism,
- >>right, since they're doing the same thing in reverse?
- >
- >No, it's not the same thing in reverse. The "monitoring" is to stop the
- >creation of an Islamic "straw man" and then attacking it. It is to
- >counter falsehoods about Islam that are spread on the net. I think
- >nobody would have any problem if atheists organised themselves to also
- >counter the creation of anti-atheist, but invalid, "straw man" arguments.
- >
-
- See? It is a similar situation. We are simply trying to correct the
- creation of falsehoods. For example, that there is a god and that
- Islam makes any sense at all. And it is quite insulting to accuse
- an atheist of having a holier-than-thou attitude ;)
-
-
- dave
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