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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: rbwinn
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:44
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On Jul 18, 6:21 am, DanielSan <daniel...@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> rbwinn wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Cite?
>
> --
> ******************************************************
> *          DanielSan -- alt.atheism #2226            *
> *----------------------------------------------------*
> * "I distrust those people who know so well what God *
> *  wants them to do because I notice it always       *
> *  coincides with their own desires."                *
> *                                 --Susan B. Anthony *
> ******************************************************- Hide quoted text -
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Cite?   If you do not believe that criminals are not being rewarded
for claiming that God told them to commit crimes, go ahead and believe
what you want to believe.
Robert B. Winn
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From: rbwinn <rbwinn3@juno.com>
Newsgroups: sci.physics,cam.misc,alt.sci.physics,alt.atheism
Subject: Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:44:25 -0700 (PDT)
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