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On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:55:20 -0500, flipper wrote:
>On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:12:04 GMT, spam@spam.com (Don Pearce) wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:39:01 -0500, "Edward Morris"
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Mr. Pearce, why are you so angry at me? You have no idea who I am. I'm not
>>>a mindless idiot. Yes atheism is a faith. It is a belief not to believe.
>>>I am not asking anyone to believe anything. You've got a burr up your butt
>>>but I didn't put it there. That's your problem. I simply asked that Mr.
>>>Turner stay to the subject of the Brook 10C. That is what the thread was
>>>about. Is this a newsgroup about tube electronics? Please send me the
>>>newsgroup policy.
>>
>>Atheism is NOT a faith. It is the position that there is no reason or
>>evidence to suggest that any supernatural entity exists. It requires
>>no faith.
>
>Of course it's 'faith'. It's 'faith' in your vision of what
>constitutes "reason" and "evidence" plus you wield it like a religion,
>declaring 'moral truths', and as a 'chosen prophet' compelled to
>proselytize to 'sinners' no matter what the topic.
>
>There's also no 'evidence' of the kind you mean that there isn't one
>either so at best you have a Mexican standoff and the world would do
>better if people were not so rabid about things that affect themselves
>not one whit.
>
>>If you choose to admit that you believe things for which there is no
>>evidence (faeries, elves, Bigfoot, unicorns, gods, Loch Ness Monsters
>>etc.), the problem is yours. You shouldn't say embarrassing stuff out
>>loud.
>
>Spoken like a true 'religious zealot'.
>
>>d
You aren't going to win this by deploying hackneyed debating trade
tricks like perverting the meaning of a key word (which you have just
done with "faith"). I understand (no, I really do) that debating trade
tricks are all the religious have to fight with, but don't bother.
I've seen them all.
d
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