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Why don't some people understand lack of belief?

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Why don't some people understand lack of belief?
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RE: Why don't some people understand lack of belief?
April 3, 2018 at 4:01 pm (This post was last modified: April 3, 2018 at 4:02 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(April 3, 2018 at 3:45 pm)robvalue Wrote: Cabbages could be called atheistic, but they are not atheists. The definition has another part to it, as Chad/Neo well knows; as I've pointed it out to him numerous times before. Yet here he is, more dishonest and more irrational than a cabbage.

HEY MAN CABBAGES ARE PEOPLE TOO!
(April 3, 2018 at 4:01 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:
(April 3, 2018 at 3:41 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Perhaps but it also works against the inane notion that everyone is "born atheist".

Are you saying that they're born theists?

I understand the point he's trying to make, and we both agree at least partly on it. He's just making his point very poorly. Of course people are born atheists at least in a very weak sense. As indeed, they're certainly not theists.
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RE: Why don't some people understand lack of belief? - by Edwardo Piet - April 3, 2018 at 4:01 pm

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