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To: kosta50; xzins; betty boop; Dr. Eckleburg; D-fendr
I never said I am an atheist and I never denied that God exists. This is something everyone is imputing to me, by mind reading and making it their business instead of dealing with issues.

To the contrary, xzins at 702 said "That seems to be an admission that you believe in neither since one of the two is pink unicorns." And following that observation he asks why you are drawn to these debates.

In your reply at 709 you did not refute xzins' premise for his question but instead you simply said that you are interested in "Church and Bible history."

You could have corrected the premise.

My objection and first observation was that your reply was not responsive to xzins' question and so I rephrased it as follows: "Or to put it another way, why would an atheist be interested in someone he denies exists?"

Neither xzins nor I directly accused you of being an atheist. But we are both interested why you would be drawn to these debates when you so frequently equate belief in God to belief in pink unicorns.


783 posted on 07/14/2010 8:40:34 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl; xzins; betty boop; Dr. Eckleburg; D-fendr
In your reply at 709 you did not refute xzins' premise

Because there is nothing to refute; I don't know what God is. This is not an active denial of God.

My belief or disbelief is neither a confirmation nor refutation of God's existence, and neither is yours, nor anyone else's for that matter.

My objection and first observation was that your reply was not responsive to xzins' question and so I rephrased it as follows: "Or to put it another way, why would an atheist be interested in someone he denies exists?"

Why don't you ask a declared atheist?

Neither xzins nor I directly accused you of being an atheist

Certainly, xzins did not—he only stated that it seems that I don't believe either in God or pink unicorns on Jupiter, but you jumped to the conclusion that I deny that God exists by asking me "why would an atheist be interested in someone he denies exists." I never said I am an atheist and I never said that God doesn't exist, so why would you ask me unless you presumed otherwise?

790 posted on 07/14/2010 9:08:50 PM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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