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"Lack"
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"Lack"
November 9, 2008 at 8:26 am
I always hear atheists saying how they "lack" belief in God. To me, this is a rather silly thing to say. The verb "lack" means a deficiency or absence of something that should be there.

Yet as we all know, faith in God has to be taught. We are all born atheists (at least passively), so evidently disbelief in God cannot be seen as a lack. It is a disbelief, a non-belief, whatever, but not a "lack" of a belief.
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"Lack" - by Tiberius - November 9, 2008 at 8:26 am
RE: "Lack" - by Kyuuketsuki - November 9, 2008 at 9:17 am
RE: "Lack" - by Tiberius - November 9, 2008 at 9:26 am
RE: "Lack" - by Kyuuketsuki - November 9, 2008 at 9:48 am
RE: "Lack" - by Tiberius - November 9, 2008 at 9:55 am
RE: "Lack" - by Kyuuketsuki - November 9, 2008 at 9:56 am
RE: "Lack" - by Edwardo Piet - November 9, 2008 at 10:18 am
RE: "Lack" - by Tiberius - November 9, 2008 at 12:13 pm
RE: "Lack" - by Jason Jarred - November 12, 2008 at 7:09 pm
RE: "Lack" - by bozo - November 12, 2008 at 8:37 pm
RE: "Lack" - by Edwardo Piet - November 12, 2008 at 8:48 pm
RE: "Lack" - by Daystar - November 17, 2008 at 4:14 pm
RE: "Lack" - by leo-rcc - November 17, 2008 at 4:22 pm
RE: "Lack" - by Daystar - November 17, 2008 at 4:24 pm
RE: "Lack" - by Edwardo Piet - November 17, 2008 at 9:39 pm

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