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What came first, the atheist or the theist?
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RE: What came first, the atheist or the theist?
(July 22, 2010 at 10:06 pm)Cecco Wrote: owning cars? who's talking about owning? believing is what we are talking about. of course your analogy makes things seems ridiculous. and you accuse me of moving off topic to distract! comparing belief in god to owning cars = wtf?
The analogy makes perfect sense. That you are not getting it isn't my fault.

You argument follows that if the concept does not exist, there can be no position on it. You use this argument to say that before the God concept existed, people neither believed nor disbelieved.

All I am doing is using the same argument with different things; substituting the concept of God for a car, and belief for ownership. Ownership is a position on something, just as belief is, so you cannot argue that belief is somehow an exception to the analogy.

Did people 1000 years ago own cars or not?
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What came first, the atheist or the theist? - by Cecco - July 22, 2010 at 7:24 pm
RE: What came first, the atheist or the theist? - by Tiberius - July 23, 2010 at 5:10 am
RE: What came first, the atheist or the theist? - by fr0d0 - August 1, 2010 at 10:29 am
RE: What came first, the atheist or the theist? - by fr0d0 - August 1, 2010 at 10:41 am
RE: What came first, the atheist or the theist? - by fr0d0 - August 1, 2010 at 11:34 am
RE: What came first, the atheist or the theist? - by fr0d0 - August 4, 2010 at 10:29 pm

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