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To: CarolinaGuitarman
Horse manure. More mystical nonsense. Objective standards and the supernatural are incompatible.

You presuppose the supernatural in your reply; otherwise, your protestations and mine are just the result of empty sensations created by the chemical reactions of brains. This would mean that you do not believe atheism because it is true, but rather because of chance concatenations of atoms. So your atheism ends up destroying rationality andobjective standards. If there is no God, then ALL abstractions are chemical epiphenomena, no different from horse manure, which means that you have no reason for assigning truth and falsity to those irrational physical forces and chemical reactions. It's the same as assigning truth or falsity to horse manure.

Of course you assume objective truth but your world view provides no foundation for it. You assume them because you are God's creature and live in His universe and you can't help it. Your knowledge of God is evident in your unacknowledged presuppositions, although not in your affirmations. You argue against God but you have to take him for granted to do so.

Cordially,

2,484 posted on 12/23/2005 8:40:34 AM PST by Diamond (Qui liberatio scelestus trucido inculpatus.)
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To: Diamond

"You presuppose the supernatural in your reply; otherwise, your protestations and mine are just the result of empty sensations created by the chemical reactions of brains."

No, I really don't.

"This would mean that you do not believe atheism because it is true, but rather because of chance concatenations of atoms."

I am not an atheist.

" Of course you assume objective truth but your world view provides no foundation for it."

Speak for yourself.

"Your knowledge of God is evident in your unacknowledged presuppositions, although not in your affirmations. You argue against God but you have to take him for granted to do so."

No, I don't.


2,485 posted on 12/23/2005 8:44:08 AM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: Diamond
You presuppose the supernatural in your reply; otherwise, your protestations and mine are just the result of empty sensations created by the chemical reactions of brains. This would mean that you do not believe atheism because it is true, but rather because of chance concatenations of atoms. So your atheism ends up destroying rationality andobjective standards. If there is no God, then ALL abstractions are chemical epiphenomena, no different from horse manure, which means that you have no reason for assigning truth and falsity to those irrational physical forces and chemical reactions. It's the same as assigning truth or falsity to horse manure. Of course you assume objective truth but your world view provides no foundation for it. You assume them because you are God's creature and live in His universe and you can't help it. Your knowledge of God is evident in your unacknowledged presuppositions, although not in your affirmations. You argue against God but you have to take him for granted to do so.

you argue with a guitar man? a guitar man?? a guitar man??? (PS: what did you actually say, I can't make heads or tails of it)

2,486 posted on 12/23/2005 8:44:08 AM PST by BagelFace (BOOGABOOGABOOGA!!!)
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