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Re: Holy crap! (was Re: The partisian trap in California)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 15 Oct 2003 20:24:53 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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Therefore, the actions of those non-atheist murderers must be explained
before atheism can uniquely be condemned for genocidal mania of this kind.
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I must take exception to this hypothetical. It has in no way been shown that
atheists have any special attraction towards genocide; whereas by contrast, I
have elsewhere shown that people of the many Jewish or Xtian faiths must at
least admit that a myth involving genocide is central to their faith.
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If the answer is “faith” once again, then I can only infer that the
statement “I have faith” is the same as “I’ve stopped questioning it.”
That, to me, is the height of intellectual dishonesty, if only to oneself.
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Truer words were never written.
-- Hop-Frog
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And on this we disagree. Up until now I’ve been on the side of angels--I mean
Bruce and Hoppy. However, faith does not exclude questions. I question
everything I am able, and have become quite disenfranchised with ‘Religion’.
This does not, in any way, shape and form, diminish my faith in God.
Hence, as a Christian, I’m pretty much willing to wrestle with any and all
issues to come to a better understanding.
Understanding doesn’t necessarily need to be in the ‘scientific realm’. I can
better my understanding of ideas that exist outside the scope of science by
questioning.
Dave K
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