XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.athiesm, alt.talk.creationism   
   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: me@nothere.biz   
      
   On 30-December-2014 1:27 PM, Malte Runz wrote:   
      
   > "felix_unger"  skrev i meddelelsen   
   > news:cgdpvbFdtgnU1@mid.individual.net...   
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   > (snip)   
   >   
   >> ... atheists cannot prove God does not exist, you can only believe it   
   >> to be the case, and so you have faith that belief is correct.   
   >   
   > And so do you, have faith, when you believe in the non-existence of   
   > invisible pink unicorns in a parallel universe, right?   
      
   I have faith (confidence) in a belief that such a proposition is   
   nonsense is true   
      
   >   
   > I don't believe we're all brains soaking in pods in a matrix, either,   
   > even if I can't prove it, and it doesn't take faith to not believe it.   
   > I live my life, as if we aren't 'soakers' and as if there are no gods.   
   > All three possibilites are equally absurd, and to make it a question   
   > about faith shows a lack of understanding.   
   >   
   > But... why can't you and so many of the, openly, theistic minded,   
   > understand that it does not take faith to not believe in something,   
   > which takes faith to have belief in the existence of?   
      
   it doesn't take faith to not believe, but it takes faith to believe that   
   a belief is correct/true. ie.. one has faith that ones belief is   
   correct. Is it not so?   
      
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   --   
   rgds,   
      
   Pete   
   -------   
   It's not about Islam!.. http://ausnet.info/pics/islam.png   
   Islam is a religion of peace!.. http://thereligionofpeace.com   
   http://pamelageller.com/   
   http://www.barenakedislam.com/   
   Brigitte Gabriel's answer to 'peaceful' moslems.. http://tinyurl   
   com/brigitteGab   
   "The right to free speech includes the right to offend"   
   "ISIS's actions represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith"   
   -Barack Obama, idiotic President of the USA   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)