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Re: The Bible is False

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From: FNO
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:46
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"SilverStar" <you.dont.get@it.com> wrote in message
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> Helper Monkey Assault Squad 7 wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:40:51 GMT, DAN@ZIONIST-HEADQUARTERS.com
> > (Danie|_ Swan) wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>>No, faith is belief in something without proof.  Since proof doesn't
exist
> >>>>faith can be based on a hunch, a "gut feeling", or highly developed
tools of
> >>>>reasoning.  Personally, I choose the latter to build my faith on.
> >>>
> >>>Ok. I'll bite. How do your highly developed tools of
> >>>reasoning lead you to believe in God?
> >>
> >>They don't, they've led me to atheism.
> >
> >
> > Oh well, so much for that argument.
>
> Yes, and it's still just a belief. A blind leap of faith, choosing to
> ignore any possible evidence that may show up to the contrary. The
> argument applies to both sides. Black and white, heads and tails. For
> everything that is believed, there will always be at least 1 person who
> has never heard of it and at least 1 person who believes it's polar
> opposite, no matter how much proof and evidence may be presented against
> them.
>
> There will always be some level of balance. The more people there are
> that believe something, the less they have to believe it, to keep hold
> of their 50% weight. If there's just 1 person who believes God is a
> sardine on some moldy old pizza that talks to him and that the earth is
> an inverse loop, which there most certainly is, SOMEWHERE, that's all it
> takes to balance out all those who believe otherwise. That 1 fool will
> believe it to the ends of the earth, no matter what is brought to him to
> say or point out otherwise.

Been there, done that with these yardbirds and their "Superior reasoning
powers" and a "couple of months of research equates to years of graduate
school for anyone else".  You seem to actually know something about
debating.  They don't.  I bit.  A whole lot of time wasted with no gain at
all.  Logic will be wasted on them.

You'll be sorry...
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