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Posted by Steve on 09/18/07 13:32
"Shelly" <sheldonlg.news@asap-consult.com> wrote in message
news:13evgmn96rktr44@corp.supernews.com...
>And, yes, atheism is also sort of a religion. It is the belief that there
>is no god.
lol. at least you say 'sort' of religion. ;^)
let me just say this, shelly. if someone told me that i was going to die
tomorrow, i'd want proof. until i had it, i would be a fool to believe
it...right? further, if the source of that information was a doctor, he'd
have proof. not only that, i could take that proof and show it to another
doctor. they'd probably come to the same conclusion if the proof was
irrefutable. other than that, they may just bicker about my expiration date.
with religion, it's a whole different ballgame. i can take 'subjective'
evidence for god (there is no objective evidence) and take it not only to
different clergy, different people within the same denomination, to
different groups and cultures. each would have a different take on what that
evidence suggests. that's the nature of subjective evidence and is the
reality of religion. where there objective evidence for the existence of
god, we'd indeed have one god viewed by all people the same way. since we
don't, we see notions of gods evolving as man's intellect grows...from many
people-like gods to a single god...from controlling everything good and bad
to being credited with only good and all bad being the spawn of an evil
entity - satan.
if i have no evidence by which i can test the theory that god exists, how
can i prove he does. and in logic courses in college, isn't the onus - the
burden of proof - on those making the claim? is the rejection, due to lack
of evidence, of a claim a religion? i don't think so.
why do religious people find it necessary to deem lack of belief in god
equal to a religion? what does that get them? if you were to try and
pursuade or convert me to another line of thought, you'd have alienated me
by not understanding me and worse, incorrectly presuming that you did.
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