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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

#12370
From: Smiler
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:18
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"rbwinn" <rbwinn3@juno.com> wrote in message 
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On Jul 18, 12:29?am, BuddyThunder <nos...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Smiler wrote:
> > "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
> >news:ad020ec9-a457-4dae-818d-182301ce08ba@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> > On Jul 16, 12:01 am, BuddyThunder <nos...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> >> rbwinn wrote:
> >>> On Jul 14, 11:29 pm, BuddyThunder <nos...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> >>>> rbwinn wrote:
> >>>>> On Jul 14, 8:01?am, The Loan Arranger <no...@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
> >>>>>> rbwinn wrote:
> >>>>>>> Only an atheist would want all choices made for
> >>>>>>> them.
> >>>>>> Now there was me thinking that that was the mark of a worshipper. 
> >>>>>> It
> >>>>>> seems to me that atheists make their own choices, because they 
> >>>>>> don't
> >>>>>> have decisions ready-dictated to them.
> >>>>> So you think it is a mistake to decide ahead of time not to commit
> >>>>> murder, not to steal, to attend church, not to commit adultery, etc.
> >>>> Why would you be so morally deficient so as to need to perform 
> >>>> morning
> >>>> affirmations in order not to kill people?
> >>>> My moral decisions are made as the occasion demands it. Seems to work
> >>>> okay.
> >>> So are you saying that for each person you encounter, you make a
> >>> decision to kill or not to kill?
> >>> Robert B. Winn
> >> No, I'm saying exactly the opposite. I need not make that decision at
> >> all, because I'm not filled with murderous rage.
>
> >> As moral decisions need to be made, I make them according to my own
> >> values.- Hide quoted text -
>
> >> - Show quoted text -
>
> > So you would only decide to kill someone if you were filled with
> > murderous rage. ?A lot of serial killers seem to be the same way.
> > ====================================
> > Most of whom are 'beleivers' in one god or another.
>
> We've got one on trial over here at the moment. He shot a guy, then
> tried to decapitate two women with a katana. Apparently God told him to
> do it. Hopefully the jury disagrees.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Almost every murderer today says that because they know the atheistic
court system will reward them for saying it.
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Why would an "atheistic court system" reward someone who claimed to believe 
in gods, skippy?

The godless one
a.a.# 2279 
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