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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]PATRICK
(12,396 posts)88. If you trust the engineering and contract
process wasn't corrupted. Most people cope better being calmed down agnostics. Real knowledge and necessary living means we are always flying in the dark on someone else's airplane.
The issue isn't the God talk- which includes the antithesis but faith and belief inside the human sensory processors. We know shortcuts, thumbnails and contemporary edited traditions(our own memories always chemically changing). Self confidence in our beliefs reduces a much more logical, but debilitating, state of anxiety. And also tolerance, self reflection and change(which happens in spite of anything inside every person).
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I think the key word is belief in that quote - Atheists don't like the suggestion that they believe
el_bryanto
Nov 2013
#2
Being an atheist doesn't require a recognition of facts as there are no facts which affirm atheism.
EOTE
Nov 2013
#3
And what if you don't know? Or if you think that God could exist just as likely as God doesn't?
EOTE
Nov 2013
#35
What if one doesn't know whether or not they believe a God is more likely to exist than doesn't.
EOTE
Nov 2013
#47
I appreciate the response, but I'd like to know how you feel about my question in #28.
EOTE
Nov 2013
#40
My 2 cents: If I believe and I'm wrong, oh well. If you DONT believe and you're wrong, uh-oh.
7962
Nov 2013
#85
Good one! But then how would they get there if there was no entity to GET them there?
7962
Nov 2013
#95
If a god punishes people to immortal suffering because they did not bow down and worship it ...
ieoeja
Nov 2013
#109
Nah. Atheists deny the existence of God. Atheism is the proposition that God does not exist.
Vattel
Nov 2013
#27
Are you seriously trying to tell me and other atheists what we believe a what we don't?
cleanhippie
Nov 2013
#46
Yeah, I know. Par for the course with folks like this, they believe what they want to believe.
cleanhippie
Nov 2013
#60
In this context, does the phrase "believe in atheism" mean "believe that atheism exists"?
Nye Bevan
Nov 2013
#4
that reminds me of how in the 17th c. they were saying that chemistry proved Protestantism
MisterP
Nov 2013
#26
So if I believe that god does not exist, I'm also likely to believe in mathematics?
Rex
Nov 2013
#45
Was at a concert recently where Athiests had shirts on that said, "Ask me a question"
cbdo2007
Nov 2013
#94
I thought you said you were a Catholic, Mr. Pitt - a DU Catholic at that
Douglas Carpenter
Nov 2013
#120
A SPECIAL NOTE TO EVERYONE WHO TURNED A THREAD ABOUT A CARTOON INTO A DOUCHEFESTIVAL
WilliamPitt
Nov 2013
#125