Re: An Atheist's Faith

On 28 Nov 2005 16:31:06 -0800, "Bhartrhari"
<elvis_loves_you@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>If disbelieving the claim is simply not accepting the claim as true,
>then this is fair enough. But accepting the negation of the claim as
>true is a different matter (since one could accept neither the claim
>nor its negation as true). It seems to me that if you identify yourself
>as an atheist, this means not simply the rejection of a belief in a
>god, but also the acceptance of the negation of that belief as true. It
>is the acceptance of this belief which requires a degree of faith,
>since we have no conclusive evidence of its veracity.

We are talking belief in a unproven thingy, you believe that there
is a invisible sky pixie, that has your beliefs. Especially about sex.
Atheist don't have that belief. It's your spin that atheist believe
that god/s don't exist, we simply don't believe that any creature that
has the characteristics that you attribute to your god of your
beliefs.
So it's a question of belief, you have it we don't. As to your God
it may well exist, in which case we atheist are wrong. We will go to
hell, where there will be no self righteous christians . Which will be
heaven, to me Hell would be spending all eternity with a bunch of self
righteous christian idiots.
In short if I believed that you were right, I would choose hell over
spending eternity with people like you.
.

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