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Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 09/19/07 10:17
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> So you profess a belief in no god. A disbelief is also a belief.
Only a fundamentalist can say that.
And it isn't true.
You really don't understand anything abut faith and belief, do you?
It is not a disbelief. It is simply absence of belief.
Having faith in nothing, is not the same as not having faith in anything.
YOU are saying that $GOD=NULL; is a statement in *my program*.
I am telling you that there is no $GOD variable to be found anywhere in it.
Which surprises you, because you assumed that it came with the whole
language. I am telling you it doesn't.
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>> I also profess no belief in leprechauns. Does that make me some kind
>> of religious person?
>>
>
> Leprechauns are not gods.
>
How do you know that?
>> In fact there are thousands of things I do not believe, up to and
>> including that GW Bush is the reincarnation of Immelda Markos.
>>
>> Like my non belief in god, the are simply not worth mentioning.
>>
>> What religious people do not like at all, is that to an atheist, the
>> issue of whether god exists or not is simply irrelevant. Uninteresting
>> in the highest degree. Its useless to believe or disbelieve. It has
>> little objective effect either way.
>>
>>
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> I really don't care one way or the other what you think. Your religious
> views are your own. Just don't infringe on my right to believe as I
> choose.
>
I don't have any religious views, Jerry. That is the whole point.
I live a life in which religion *of my own* simply DOES NOT FEATURE.
Days and weeks go by without me even thinking abut religion. And dare I
say it, its the better for it.
>>> And you have a belief in the lack of a god.
>>>
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>> No, simply no belief in its existence. And no need to have or not have
>> the belief.
>
> Same idea, different words.
>
Not at all.
An act of disbelief is an act.
Simply not believing in the first place is not an act. Its the absence
of an act.
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