From: user6340@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   JTEM  posted:   
   > On 1/8/26 4:45 PM, Steven Douglas wrote:   
   >   
   > > I wouldn't expect you to have faith based on anything   
   > > I say. That would have to come from within yourself.   
   >   
   > I tried that argument with the online "atheists," who   
   > are to real atheism what syphilis was to one of Doc's   
   > music festivals...   
   >   
   > The point is, nobody is an atheist because they read a   
   > book, or figured something out. There's a lot of very   
   > intelligent men who are theists, and lots of complete   
   > morons who are atheists.   
   >   
   > The fact is that an atheists just doesn't believe   
   > there's a God, and then rationalizes everything.   
   >   
   > And that's okay, except for the insistence that they   
   > didn't do that.   
   >   
   > Oo!  Know what's worse?  When they go off about how   
   > agnosticism is about knowledge and atheism is about   
   > belief.... like a wtf "knowledge" is a typical   
   > agnostic supposed to have everyone else lacks?   
   >   
   > Or is it the other way around:  Agnostics LACK a   
   > certain knowledge that everyone else has, and that's   
   > why they're agnostic?   
   >   
   > And the final plank in the mental illness marathon   
   > is the "Not believing in Santa Claus is totally   
   > different from believing there's no Santa Claus."   
   >   
   > Translation:  "Atheists are fence sitters!"   
   >   
   > Fucking idiots!   
      
   I've had atheists tell me that atheism is not a belief,   
   it's a lack of belief. Then they sat around with their   
   very own Usenet group and discussed their lack of belief   
   with each other. Is there any other group of people who   
   have their own Usenet group in which they discuss what   
   they don't believe?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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