From: stumper 

Sippuddin wrote:
> stumper wrote:
>
>>>>>> God is everything there ever was, is, and will be.
>
> Think again. That already has a name: universe
>
> Evidently you are just trying too be equivocal? That isn't allowed.
>
>>
>> Why do you have so much interest in God?
>>
>
> We who are atheist (meaning not theist) don't. We couldn't care less
> about your 'might be' conjecture with no basis in fact. "Atheism is
> characterized by an absence of belief in the existence of gods." --
> http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/intro.html
>
>
>> If it really does not exist,
>> you don't even have to be an atheist.
>>
> 'Don't have to be atheist'?? Don't be silly, "Atheism is characterized
> by an absence of belief in the existence of gods." --
> http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/intro.html
>
> It's just the opposite of what you say. Belief in the existence of gods
> is not required. The only rational state in this case is an absence of
> belief in the existence of gods.
>
> Again:
> "Atheism is characterized by an absence of belief in the existence of
> gods." -- http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/intro.html
>
> Atheist agnostics go beyond absence of belief in the existence of gods
> to unabashedly deny and repudiate, on principle, religious belief in the
> existence of gods:
>
> "That which Agnostics deny and repudiate, as immoral, is the contrary
> doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe,
> without logically satisfactory evidence." -- Thomas Huxley, who coined
> the term 'agnostic', in his excoriation of the Christian Belief,
> "Agnosticism and Christianity"
> http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE5/Agn-X.html
>
> "The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without
> evidence." -- Thomas Huxley, Evolution and Ethics


I agree completely.
We just cannot believe in miracles anymore. We just cannot believe in the
supernatural anymore. It's rather silly even to talk about the theistic
God.

Still, there are billions of people who believe in God. So, it's natural
for some to think about it as something that exists atheistically.

Do you think memes exist?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

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~Stumper

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