XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.atheism, alt.talk.creationism   
   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: gudloos@yahoo.com   
      
   "mur" skrev i meddelelsen news:0qrqcalc1ofgv7gemh395qn40u3tofeiro@4ax.com...   
   > 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.   
   >>   
   >>Why?   
   >   
   >    Because unless you do it will remain clear that the only belief you're   
   > capable of considering is the one but not any others. If you want to try   
   > pretending you "have" no belief then you need to show that you can   
   > consider more   
   > than just the ONE we know you DO consider.   
      
      
   What is the one we know he is not considering?   
      
      
   --   
   thomas p   
      
   Ignorance is the mother of devotion.   
      
   David Hume   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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