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   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: abc@cef.ghi   
      
   In article <2o4ldah5qo072pcljugc8kseima7qoplib@4ax.com>, mur wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:46:56 -0800, Jeanne Douglas    
   > wrote:   
   > .   
   > >In article , mur wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 03:43:54 -0800, Jeanne Douglas   
   > >>    
   > >> wrote:   
   > >> .   
   > >> >In article <0qrqcalc1ofgv7gemh395qn40u3tofeiro@4ax.com>, mur wrote:   
   > >> >   
   > >> >> 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.   
   > >> >> >   
      
   A careful person will not reject the possibility of no gods existing on   
   the basis of any evidence as yet presented, nor reject the reverse   
   possibility on that evidence.   
      
   Such careful persons are called agnostics.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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