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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

#12670
From: Smiler
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:27
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"rbwinn" <rbwinn3@juno.com> wrote in message 
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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.
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Most of whom are 'beleivers' in one god or another.

Smiler,
The godless one
a.a.# 2279 
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