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   On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:50:45 +0100, "thomas p." wrote:   
   .   
   >"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,   
      
    "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."   
      
   >making his   
   >response quite relevant.   
      
    No...   
      
   >>so what did you think you could gain   
   >> by such wussing, do you have any idea at all?   
      
   ...but what would you like people to think he could gaing by such wussing, do   
   you have any idea?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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