XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.atheism, alt.talk.creationism
XPost: sci.skeptic
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:59:49 -0700, A Nony Mouse wrote:
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>In article , mur wrote:
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>> On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:12:47 -0700, Wisely Non-Theist wrote:
>> .
>> >On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:29:33 -0500, mur wrote:
>> >
>> >>On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:50:45 +0100, "thomas p." wrote:
>> >>.
>> >>>"mur" skrev i meddelelsen
>> >>>news:6qrqcals3qderjf3jg632rk94vphqehoh5@4ax.com...
>> >>>> On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 00:42:15 -0700, Wisely Non-Theist
>> >>>> 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.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>There are all sorts of things that I have not yet heard about, and
>> >>>>>doubtless will not hear about during my lifetime, about which I have no
>> >>>>>beliefs whatsoever, having had no opportunity to form any beliefs about
>> >>>>>them!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The possibility of there being a God associated with this planet has
>> >>>> nothing
>> >>>> to do with what you just wussiley mentioned
>> >>>
>> >>>You did not limit your comment about belief to belief in a god,
>> >>
>> >> "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."
>> >
>> >Babies start with no beliefs in any gods,
>> >and the lucky ones REMAIN uncorrupted!
>>
>> If there is no God associated with this planet, which is a
>> possibility I take into consideration, then I agree with you even
>> though you wussed away from what I pointed out. But if there is a God
>> associated with this planet, which is another possibility I take into
>> consideration, then I have no reason to agree with you because you
>> don't have any idea whether you're correct or whether you're not. As
>> yet I have no reason to put complete faith in either of the above
>> mentioned possibilities being correct, much MUCH less do I have any
>> reason to put faith in your guess being correct.
>
>I do not reject the possibility, merely the certainty!
>In either direction!
>
>The first newsgroup listed for the distribution of these posting is
>alt.agnosticism, which I support.
I'm a weak agnostic. Are you familiar with the distinction between a weak
agnostic and a strong one? How about a weak atheist and a strong one?
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