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   mur@.not. to bilgat@m.nu   
   Re: having some doubts   
   05 Jun 14 12:36:30   
   
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   On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 13:36:36 -0500, bilgat@m.nu wrote:   
   .   
   >On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 11:44:54 -0400, mur@.not. wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 06:44:17 -0500, bilgat@m.nu wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 01:56:12 -0230, David Dalton    
   >>>wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>These days I am having some doubts about my eight main deities   
   >>>>and am considering going atheist again as I have been twice before   
   >>>>for a good number of years.   But if I do so I would leave my   
   >>>   
   >>>being atheist is not something you go to and then go away from. Being   
   >>>a true atheist means realizing that the idea of a god or gods is so   
   >>>rediclous   
   >>   
   >>    Another way of thinking about that same thing is to think that   
   considering   
   >>how huge the universe is, it's moronic to put faith in the possibility that   
   >>there are no beings in it who are advanced enough to be considered gods.   
   >>   
   >>>that one would never go back to a god. Saying that you   
   >>>become agnostic and then going back to theism isnt really an answer.   
   >>>If you ever "go back" to theism that just means tghat you never   
   >>>actually left. You just wanted a different title for awhile, but you   
   >>>were the kind of person that when you were in a pinch you would wisper   
   >>>a little prayer for some reassurance. That an atheist or agnostic does   
   >>>not make.   
   >>   
   >>    Again the moron in you displays itself by claiming no agnostic would   
   pray.   
   >   
   >You are not agnostic so how would you know?   
      
       You are not agnostic so how would you know?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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