XPost: alt.atheism, alt.atheism.satire, alt.paranormal.crop-circles   
   From: twonky@mindspring.com   
      
   "Pangur Ban"  wrote in message   
   news:Xns98557B79D73E6PangurBan.worldnetat@63.218.45.20...   
   > "HVAC"  wrote in   
   > news:1160237620.789353.64010@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:   
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   >> "Pangur Ban"  wrote in message   
   >> news:Xns985550C42C820PangurBan.worldnetat@63.218.45.20...   
   >>>   
   >>> *snip* for brevity   
   >>   
   >> Good...You snipped out everything related to Twonky.   
   >>   
   >> He is a distasteful sort, isn't he?   
   >>   
   >> Racial bigotry is something I have never had the displeasure to   
   >> embrace.   
   >>   
   > I don't embrace it either.... *shudder*  what a thought!   
      
   I don't either. I eXploit it.....   
   >>   
   >>>> What proof can you show me for the existence of god?   
   >>>   
   >>> Absolutely none.  No proof, no data, no evidence.  I simply choose   
   >>> for myself to believe.  It is that simple.  My belief harms no one as   
   >>> I don't seek to convert... or preach.  My religion makes me (I think   
   >>> and hope) a better person - and my friends, my community, benefit.   
   >>> No harm; no foul.   
   >>   
   >> Well, in MY worldview, religion is the cause of almost all the   
   >> suffering on the planet.  Hands down.   
   >   
   > No argument from me.  What men have done to religions (the majority of   
   > them) should be criminal.   
      
   Oh. Are you judging them....?   
   >>   
   >> PS- When you use the sig, "Pangur - nonchristian theist", you are in a   
   >> sense, proselytizing.   
   >   
   > Sheesh, you atheists are hard to satisfy.  I added it at the suggestion   
   > of another atheist poster who told me it would help readers remember I   
   > am a theist.  You tell me it is "proselytizing".   
      
   He is judging you....   
   >   
   > What's a poor theist to do?  *laugh*  Maybe I will go back to my   
   > favorite sig line.   
      
   And what is that....?   
   >   
   >>   
   >> In a sense then, YOU are part of the global suffering that has been   
   >> brought about by religion.   
   >   
   > Not I....as I don't follow any of the nonsense of the major religions   
   > and most of the minor ones.   
      
   How many can you have....?   
   >   
   >>   
   >> There IS harm and there IS foul....Just look at Twonky.   
   >>   
   >> .........He believes in god too.   
   >   
   > Belief in god does not guarantee a good - let alone - decent person.   
      
   Belief in God Almighty does. My maker has a name....   
      
   > What determines the person is what he/she does with the beliefs (and   
   > sometimes doesn't do with the silly accretions to religion.)   
      
   That's no fun....   
   >   
   > Pangur - ???????   
      
   Pangur - I don't know what I believe   
      
   ~>   
   Twonky....   
      
   "Then they remembered that the Almighty God HaShem was their   
   rock and redeemer, and the Most High." (Ps 78:35)   
      
   "I will exalt my throne above the throne of God. I will put myself   
   beyond the stars. I will be like the Most High."   
   (Lucifer. Isaias 12:14)   
      
   "Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High."  (Allah 87.1)   
      
   He's Mighty, Supreme, Benevolent and Wise, too....   
      
   Wake up world.....   
      
   You've been had.....   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)