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To: ilovesarah2012
Yeah, not sure he was mad at God. Hard to be mad at anyone you don’t believe exists, I would think.

Happens all the time. I guess you don't know any atheists of that sort?

71 posted on 05/22/2012 8:46:13 AM PDT by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: thulldud

> “Yeah, not sure he [Darwin] was mad at God. Hard to be mad at anyone you don’t believe exists, I would think.” [ilovesarah2012]
> “Happens all the time. I guess you [ilovesarah2012] don’t know any atheists of that sort?” [thulldud]

And what’s your evidence that this happens all the time? I don’t believe it ever happens, and have difficulty understanding how it could happen. In fact there’s a wry atheist joke about why God allows so much suffering to exist in the world: “God’s only excuse is that he doesn’t exist.” (This line is often attributed to the French novelist Stendhal — in French “La seule excuse de Dieu, c’est qu’il n’existe pas” — but I can’t find it in his works.)

If you mean that some atheists are hostile toward persons who believe in God, that’s something else. Similarly people in this country can’t really be mad at the God that Al Qaeda members worship (their conception of “Allah”). We’re mad at them for what their delusions are leading them to do.


96 posted on 05/22/2012 5:58:37 PM PDT by GJones2 (Darwin mad at God?)
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