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- From: bb099@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Adam Trent Phillips)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: A point well missed ...
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 07:46:27 GMT
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- Reply-To: bb099@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (White Rook)
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- In a previous article, bil@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Bill Conner) says:
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- >The question, "How much should I read of a religions corpus of sacred
- >writings", seems to miss the point. Being atheists it's incumbent on
- >you to demonstrate the reasons for your disbelief. Merely attacking
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- I don't beleive in Unicorns, there is NO proof they exist, they
- are a myth that was inspired my peoples material realities. How come it is
- "incumbent" on -ME- to prove they do not exist ?
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- >the beliefs of others does nothing to validate your own. Tell me then,
- >why are you an atheist ...
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- >Bill
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- I do NOT beleive in god(s) for the same reason I do not beleive in
- spirits, it is because we, as humans used to attribute things we did not
- understand, like weather and a lot of other things to th esupernatural. As
- we have come to understand our world better, we find that MANY of the things
- we attributed to the supernatural, have material causes/sources. And there is
- the simple fact there is NO real REASON to beleive in the supernatural. We
- have learned that the "spirits" do not curse you when you eat grain that has
- been in the fields too long, such ideas came because Argot mold grew on the
- grain and people mistaked LSD trips to reality.
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- We know that there is no being that makes the sun rise and set, we
- know that there is no sentient being of some non-material existence that
- controls the weather. There is No reason to beleive in such superstition.
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- I am an atheist, because there is NO PROOF of the supernatural being
- real. It is just that simple.
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- Unicorns and god(s) have something in common, people beleived in them
- because they did not really understand their material realities.
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- It seems like YOU missed the point of the thread, it is in reguards to
- theists who say that since you do not buy into their theism that you have
- simply not read their BOOK (tm) hard enough. I consider this whole premise
- sily.
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- White Rook <-----Atheist and Aunicornist =-)
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- A. TRENT PHILLIPS |" A mirror is a negative space with a frame and a place for
- also known as | your face, it reveals what the rest of us see. It conceals
- WHITE ROOK | what you'd like you to be."--Blue Oyster Cult
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