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   From: gudloos@yahoo.com   
      
   "mur" skrev i meddelelsen news:6qrqcals3qderjf3jg632rk94vphqehoh5@4ax.com...   
   > On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 00:42:15 -0700, Wisely Non-Theist  wrote:   
   > .   
   >>On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 13:45:42 -0500, mur wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 23:28:47 -0700, Wisely Non-Theist    
   >>>wrote:   
   >>>.   
   >>>>In article ,   
   >>>> felix_unger  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> it takes faith to believe that God does not   
   >>>>> exist   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Perhaps it does may faith to disbelieve in what a person has once   
   >>>>believed in,   
   >>>   
   >>>    To disbelieve can mean to have no belief at all, but it can also mean   
   >>> to   
   >>>believe something is incorrect. That is very unfortunate imo, and   
   >>>possibly the   
   >>>cause of some honest confustion...POSSIBLY.   
   >>>   
   >>>>but it takes no such faith not to believe in something one   
   >>>>never has believed in.   
   >>>   
   >>>    To honestly have no belief requires considering the possibility that   
   >>>something is correct as well as that it's not correct. You make it   
   >>>clearly   
   >>>obvious you can consider the possibility that God does not exist as being   
   >>>correct. Try to present some evidence that you can also consider the   
   >>>possibility   
   >>>that God does exist as being correct, if you really would like to try   
   >>>pretending   
   >>>you honestly have no belief about it.   
   >>   
   >>There are all sorts of things that I have not yet heard about, and   
   >>doubtless will not hear about during my lifetime, about which I have no   
   >>beliefs whatsoever, having had no opportunity to form any beliefs about   
   >>them!   
   >   
   >    The possibility of there being a God associated with this planet has   
   > nothing   
   > to do with what you just wussiley mentioned   
      
   You did not limit your comment about belief to belief in a god, making his   
   response quite relevant.   
      
      
   so what did you think you could gain   
   > by such wussing, do you have any idea at all?   
      
      
      
   --   
   thomas p   
      
   Ignorance is the mother of devotion.   
      
   David Hume   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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