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To: AndrewC
What makes you think I have a hard time understanding it?

I didn't necessarily mean you. I haven't seen any posts from you that would indicate this. But I do very often see religious people misunderstanding atheism.

What would be a fair description of atheism?

I don't know the full context to get the intended meaning. But in many cases religious people assume that an atheist is against God, hates God, actively rejects God. This is true in some cases (Dawkins for example, can't stand him either). But the cabbage metaphor can be used to show that an atheist can just simply not believe

530 posted on 04/29/2008 8:38:21 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
I don't know the full context to get the intended meaning.

A gracious answer. To me someone that really came out well in the film was Michael Shermer.

532 posted on 04/29/2008 9:12:44 AM PDT by AndrewC (You should go see "Expelled")
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To: antiRepublicrat
But the cabbage metaphor can be used to show that an atheist can just simply not believe

Are cabbages atheists? A simple yes or no will do.

614 posted on 04/30/2008 8:46:30 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (see FR homepage for Euvolution v0.4.2)
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