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To: OESY
"The atheist foolishly presumes that reason is in principle capable of figuring out all that there is, while the theist at least knows that there is a reality greater than, and beyond, that which our senses and our minds can ever apprehend."

How foolishly presumptuous. A theist "knows" as much as an atheist does, but may "believe" differently.

2 posted on 10/06/2003 6:10:29 AM PDT by Conservative Me
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To: Conservative Me
How foolishly presumptuous. A theist "knows" as much as an atheist does, but may "believe" differently.

How ridiculously reductionist.
10 posted on 10/06/2003 6:15:13 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: Conservative Me
A theist "knows" as much as an atheist does, but may "believe" differently.

No, if God exists then the theist knows infinetly more than the atheist. It's just that the atheist refuses to believe it.

11 posted on 10/06/2003 6:17:24 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Conservative Me
Precisely the point. An atheist HAS a belief system. They believe there is no God. When an atheist goes to court and asks for the ten commandments to be removed from a court house in order to promote religious freedom, its disingenuous. He is asking for the state to adopt his religious worldview, that there is no God, and any acknoledgement by the government that there may be a God is and infringement on the atheists religious freedom.

On the contrary - every time we censor a prayer, every time we take down a religious historic monument, we give up both our religious and our free speech rights, and we acknowledge atheism - a world without God - as our national religion. We endorse it explicitly.
12 posted on 10/06/2003 6:19:34 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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