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   felix_unger to knight@baawa.com   
   Re: SAD defeat of the atheist community    
   28 Jun 14 14:37:05   
   
   XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism, sci.skeptic   
   XPost: alt.christnet   
   From: me@nothere.biz   
      
   On 28-June-2014 1:05 PM, knight@baawa.com wrote:   
   > On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:54:16 +1000, felix_unger    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 27-June-2014 12:52 PM, knight@baawa.com wrote:   
   > snip   
   >   
   >>>      The thing is, what you can't understand, is that if a god existed   
   >>> we would not need proof it existed. It would obviously exist and   
   >>> interact with us. But the reality is exactly as if a god does not   
   >>> exist.   
   >> but it's not. how can you say that when there are literally billions of   
   >> ppl who believe in and worship God? you're claiming in essence that   
   >> that's meaningless, purposeless, and inefficacious. you have to deny the   
   >> plethora of testimony to assert that, or else claim that ALL the   
   >> testimonial evidence is false.   
   >     Argument from numbers. A billion flies think shit is good to eat so   
   > by that example, shit is good to eat.   
      
   people are different to insects, in case you haven't noticed   
      
   >   
   > Superstition is institutional. It's brainwashing from cradle to   
   > grave. I can't prove there isn't a god and you can't prove there is.   
   > Given that is the bottom line, the entire notion is absurd.   
      
   irrelevant to the fact that there is evidence, but noted that you can't   
   / won't admit that there is. one can only speculate as to the reason   
      
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