XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.atheism, alt.philosophy
XPost: alt.christnet.christianlife
From: reverend_dave@minister.com
Virgil wrote in
news:Virgil-56372D.20294902032010@bignews.usenetmonster.com:
> In article
> <0f03b172-c3e6-4e1d-bf84-296642ec6135@v20g2000yqv.googlegroups.com>,
> omprem wrote:
>
>> On Mar 1, 2:44 pm, John Stafford wrote:
>> > In article
>> > ,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Jimbo wrote:
>> > > On Mar 1, 9:47 am, omprem wrote:
>> > > > On Mar 1, 6:27 am, Errol wrote:
>> >
>> > > > > On Feb 1, 11:47 pm, Michael Gordge
>> > > > > wrote:
>> >
>> > > > > > On Feb 2, 5:33 am, "Less religion, More brains"
>> > > > > > wrote:
>> >
>> > > > > > > Atheists are atheists simply because God made them that
>> > > > > > > way...
>> >
>> > > > > > Man made god in the image of himself, god is therefore
>> > > > > > athiest.
>> >
>> > > > > > MG
>> >
>> > > > > So atheists made god? ewe are pitiful
>> >
>> > > > Atheists invented the god that they argue against.
>> >
>> > > What a ludicrous statement.
>> >
>> > Maybe oprem doesn't know what a Straw Man is.
>>
>> Rather than misrepresenting Atheism I have represented what Atheists
>> say about their own belief system.
>
> Atheists do not have a "belief system".
>
> Atheists may have a system of non-belief, if one choses to
> characterize them that way, but not a system of belief.
>
> Theists believe in gods, atheists lack belief in gods.
Here's an analogy that I always liked.
Atheism is a belief system in the same way that not collecting stamps is
a hobby.
--
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is
those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert
that this or that problem will never be solved by science. - Charles
Darwin
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