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RE: On Defining Atheism: A Sentence
August 23, 2015 at 5:12 pm
(August 20, 2015 at 5:35 pm)abaris Wrote: Yes, we know that. Won't keep certain christers from calling it a belief though.
It's not what they call me. It's what I answer to.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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RE: On Defining Atheism: A Sentence
August 24, 2015 at 2:29 am
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(August 23, 2015 at 9:51 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: (August 20, 2015 at 5:28 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: I love when Christians play lexicographers when it comes to the definition of "atheism" when the only word they really don't seem to understand is "evidence".
Do you mean direct or indirect evidence?
I think I smell equivocation.
"Indirect evidence" as I imagine you understand it, includes the arrangement of matter such as to allow rational beings to exist, which you think serves as an "evidential" basis for belief in intelligent design, i.e. that an infinitely more intelligent substance which requires nothing by way of explanation satisfactorily explains the one in and by which you find yourself stipulating requirements. That's NOT indirect evidence. It's but a non-apparent, bald assertion.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
