To: Tribune7
You seemed to be saying that atheism fills the same need (or fails to fill the same need) as any religous belief.
I believe that I chose my previous wording poorly. I spoke of "religious belief", when I should have spoken of "theistic religious belief" so as not to include religious belief compatable with atheism (such as some variants of Buddhism).
From the standpoint of an atheist, all theistic religion -- being false -- is 'pointless'. As such -- from that standpoint -- nothing more is gained or accomplished from belief in a deity or deities than is gained from lacking such belief.
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09/27/2006 7:50:22 AM PDT by
Dimensio
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To: Dimensio
OK. And my point is that any belief is pointless which declares everything to be an accident and that only what can be measured is what exist.
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