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To: GoLightly
I go between atheism and agnosticism. I don't straight-jacket myself with definitions, too strictly. I don't see any convincing arguments for a god or God.

However, I can only be proven wrong, by divine intervention. For now.

21 posted on 02/12/2009 8:33:02 AM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins (I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins
I don't see any convincing arguments for a god or God.

That's a fair statement & if you'd led with it instead of what you did, I wouldn't have taken the time to kick the soap box that you'd climbed onto from under your feet.

23 posted on 02/12/2009 8:46:16 AM PST by GoLightly
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins
I go between atheism and agnosticism.

Neither is really gonna do ya any good.

So, in that sense, you're kidding yourself by making a distinction.

28 posted on 02/12/2009 1:15:24 PM PST by Cedric
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins
You must appreciate that many who “argue” most for religious beliefs, quoting the Bible and the like, at some level or other abandon reason and a critical approach to knowledge. It's as impossible to talk with them at least on many particular religious matters as it is to have a rational discussion with Osama bin Laden, a Klansman, a Stalinist and the like. In fact you should check out Eric Hoffer’s classic book The True Believer, which does a fine job of analyzing the mindsets of such individuals.

As I suggest in my piece, when I witness this sort of irrationality, it strikes me as a tragic and terrible waste of human ability and human minds.

30 posted on 02/12/2009 1:24:23 PM PST by Ed Hudgins (Rand fan)
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