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Re: WMD, again...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:41:09 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Terry Prosper writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Terry Prosper writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> >
> > > > Maybe this analogy would work: I believe in (ie, accept the existence of)
> > > > Christianity, but I don't follow it.
> >
> > > I think you are confusing atheism, which is to not believe in any god or
> > > spiritual entity like gogs, with agnostism. Agnostic people just don't care
> > > for religion, but they may believe or not that a God exists. As for you,
> > > who believes in Christian religion but doesn't follow it, I think you are a
> > > believer, just not a practicing believer.
> >
> > Boy oh boy are you off the mark.
> >
> > John, would you care to field this one for me? 8^)
> >
> > Dave!
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> Do you have a dictionnary? Search for atheism. You'll see i'm right.
> Here, I'll search for you :
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> a·the·ism
> (click to hear the word) (th-zm)
> n.
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> Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods.
> The doctrine that there is no God or gods.
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> Here is for...
> ag·nos·tic
> (click to hear the word) (g-nstk)
> n.
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> One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
> One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true
> atheism.
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> I'm totally on the spot. Care to tell me how the dictionnary is wrong and
> you right?
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> Terry
I think it was in reference in you specifically stating that Dave! was a
non-practicing Christian.
Before you, Terry, jump in here with your notions as to who the other
'players' are in o.t-d, it's perhaps good that you do some research on the
'players'.
You're definitions (def'ns) of the actual words are correct. Your
attributing them to specific folks here are a wee bit "off the mark". Maybe
it's an a-h attack, but you haven't been much "on the mark" yet--not that
I'm ever close to the mark, either--so I guess we're both in the same boat
there... ;)
Oh those Canadians!
Dave K
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| (...) Do you have a dictionnary? Search for atheism. You'll see i'm right. Here, I'll search for you : a·the·ism (click to hear the word) (th-zm) n. Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods. The doctrine that there is no God or gods. (...) (21 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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