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   XPost: sci.skeptic   
      
   On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 22:25:02 -0800, Jeanne Douglas    
   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.   
   >   
   >Why?   
      
       Because unless you do it will remain clear that the only belief you're   
   capable of considering is the one but not any others. If you want to try   
   pretending you "have" no belief then you need to show that you can consider   
   more   
   than just the ONE we know you DO consider.   
      
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