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   From: reverend_dave@minister.com   
      
   Virgil  wrote in   
   news:Virgil-3B9166.01513803032010@bignews.usenetmonster.com:   
      
   > In article ,   
   >  Reverend Dave  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Virgil  wrote in   
   >> news:Virgil-56372D.20294902032010@bignews.usenetmonster.com:   
   >>   
   >> > In article   
   >> > <0f03b172-c3e6-4e1d-bf84-296642ec6135@v20g2000yqv.googlegroups.com>,   
   >> >  omprem  wrote:   
   >> >   
      
   >> >>   
   >> >> 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.   
   >   
   > Nice! May I borrow it?   
   >   
      
   It isn't mine to give permission for. I suspect it's in the public   
   domain, so feel free to use it.   
      
      
   --   
   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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