XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism, sci.skeptic   
   XPost: alt.christnet   
   From: me@nothere.biz   
      
   On 27-June-2014 6:59 AM, mur@.not. wrote:   
   > On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:19:28 +1000, felix_unger  wrote:   
   > ..   
   >> On 25-June-2014 2:02 AM, monkey wrote:   
   >>> once a person is an atheist that person will always be an atheist.   
   >> untrue   
   >      He has no clue what he thinks he's trying to talk about the vast   
   majority of   
   > the time, if ever. I don't recall him ever having a clue.   
   >   
   >      I tried being a strong atheist for a short while years ago when I first   
   > realised that things might have been able to develop as they did without the   
   aid   
   > of deliberate influence, but it didn't take very long before I figured out   
   that   
   > was the most stupid of possible positions so I gave up trying to cling to it.   
   >  From there I started trying to think realistically about how God could   
   exist,   
   > and about why things would be as they are if he does. Those are a couple of   
   the   
   > starting lines these people will never get as "far" as.   
      
   there's no need to believe anything about what is not known to be   
   true/fact. just keep an open mind. but I agree, they don't want to   
   consider other possibilities.   
      
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