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A Tribute To Christopher Hitchens - The Anti-Theist
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RE: A Tribute To Christopher Hitchens - The Anti-Theist
July 2, 2012 at 12:43 pm (This post was last modified: July 2, 2012 at 12:44 pm by FallentoReason.)
(July 2, 2012 at 7:01 am)Zen Badger Wrote:
(July 2, 2012 at 1:55 am)FallentoReason Wrote: Huh? How can you wish gods existed but at the same time be relieved the evidence doesn't exist?

Same way you could wish that dragons exist.

I know they don't, but wouldn't it be great if they did.

No, your example excludes the relief felt after knowing the evidence doesn't exist for dragons.

One can't wish for something to be so and simultaneously be relieved that it isn't so. If anything, that's a false sense of humility towards the truth, if that makes sense.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
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RE: A Tribute To Christopher Hitchens - The Anti-Theist - by FallentoReason - July 2, 2012 at 12:43 pm

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