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To: orionblamblam
Ahem: there are more people in the world who don't believe in God than just atheists.

Well, perhaps here you have an opportunity to educate me. But since an atheist is one who by definition does not believe in God, I find it hard to understand how you can claim that there is such thing as a person who does not believe in God and yet is not an atheist. So please explain.

Then imagine how tired *they* are. To do so, imagine that our currency said "There Is No God To Trust" instead of "In God We Trust."

Well, let 'em start their OWN country and have their OWN currency. This one was started by people who universally believed in God (although not all were Christians).

And please don't give me that "separation of church and state" nonsense, since 1) there is no such thing in the Constitution, and 2) virtually everybody who was remotely connected with the framing of our government favored the public invocation of God's blessings at every opportunity.

Lastly, let us not forget that atheistic fanaticism killed and imprisoned more people in the 20th century than any religious doctrine ever has.

32 posted on 01/06/2005 11:05:13 AM PST by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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To: Maceman

> I find it hard to understand how you can claim that there is such thing as a person who does not believe in God and yet is not an atheist.

Agnostics do not believe in God.
Muslims do not believe in God (not yours, anyway)
Buddhists, Hindus, Wiccans, animists, etc. do not believe in God.

Remember, there is a difference between atheism ("I believe there is no god") and agnosticism ("I do not believe in god").

> let us not forget that atheistic fanaticism killed and imprisoned more people in the 20th century than any religious doctrine ever has.

Sorry, no... that was Communism. They bleated about Atheism, but they weren't. They simply replaced one god with another... that being the State (or the "historical dialectic," or whatever other drivel it was)


36 posted on 01/06/2005 12:35:55 PM PST by orionblamblam
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