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To: malakhi
You're a theist? Want a medal? Is that supposed to impress me? I don't care what your opinion is of my methods. What I stated was true. If it is untrue, then refute it! Forget the tone (as if you can read tone in print), respond to the charge!! If what I said is true, then how can I be wrong? Is telling the truth wrong? I can back up what I said. If you want to defend atheists, be my guest - I'm ready for ya. What sort of "theist" are you anyway? Deists are theists. Some theists act like atheists - like the Rev. Barry Lynn.
100 posted on 09/29/2003 8:59:02 AM PDT by exmarine
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To: exmarine
I've asked you to stop embarassing me.

Don't make me come down there.

105 posted on 09/29/2003 9:02:41 AM PDT by The Man Upstairs
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To: exmarine
Is that supposed to impress me?

Your questioning of me "is there a right and wrong" suggested that you believed me to be a moral relativist. So I clarified my position.

What I stated was true.

An atheist has not God, therefore, no moral compass

Sweeping generalization. Many atheists may be moral relativists, but there are also atheists who believe in an objective morality. So your statement here is false.

therefore, no value of truth

Empirically falsifiable. Plus, it doesn't logically follow from your previous point.

and thus, feel no obligation to tell the truth or be honest

Again, talking to atheists will refute this as a blanket statement. Atheism does not equal amorality.

They are liars, obfuscators, revisionists

All of them? False as stated.

anti-Christian bigots

All of them? False as stated.

and they are the ENEMY of freedom.

Again, not ALL of them, any more than all Christians "are the ENEMY of freedom". Some atheists are evil, some are good. Some Christians are evil, some are good. There are atheists who have fought and died to defend this country and its freedoms. And you have the temerity to call them "enemies of freedom"?

Atheism fosters dictatorships.

So have religions. You may wish to study history. Totalitarianism long predates atheism as any sort of powerful social force.

Atheism is un-American.

By whose definition? YOURS? Who made you the arbiter?

They are moral relativists, accountable to no one but their own twisted machiavellian consciences.

Again, empirically untrue.

What sort of "theist" are you anyway?

I am a Jew.

116 posted on 09/29/2003 9:13:52 AM PDT by malakhi (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.)
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