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trotsky

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10. If you imagine it, and then declare that it's part of your religion...

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 09:09 AM

Mar 2015

then it's no longer imagining, and now an official protected belief. And you can't criticize it, nor certainly mock it, lest you be labeled a filthy bigoted atheist. Well, unless it's one of "those" religions that are lesser than the others and that are OK to mock, since the civility police do it themselves.

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Imagining vs Belief. [View all] Warren Stupidity Mar 2015 OP

I'm not the smartest bulb on this atheist tree, but JDDavis Mar 2015 #1

Imagination influenced by other's talk about their own imaginations, of course. AlbertCat Mar 2015 #3

I think what we have here is two very ambiguous verbs/nouns JDDavis Mar 2015 #5

OMG!!!!! The DICTIONARY????? Really???? AlbertCat Mar 2015 #2

Somebody's really argued for that definition bvf Mar 2015 #7

Language is slippery. bvf Mar 2015 #4

GREAT use of language, so now JDDavis Mar 2015 #6

Here you go. bvf Mar 2015 #8

Thanks! You have to agree: JDDavis Mar 2015 #9

If you imagine it, and then declare that it's part of your religion... trotsky Mar 2015 #10

then it's no longer imagining, AlbertCat Mar 2015 #11

The fact that one can use the phrase "believe in their imaginings" illustrates the difference. nt. Warren Stupidity Mar 2015 #12

The fact that one can use the phrase "believe in their imaginings" illustrates the difference. AlbertCat Mar 2015 #14

I can imagine there is a God RussBLib Mar 2015 #13

and you can believe in a god that is unimaginable. Warren Stupidity Mar 2015 #15