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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: DanielSan
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:36
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Jon Green wrote:
> rbwinn wrote:
>> Atheists are the people who are trying to make the Bible disappear.
>> Robert B. Winn
> 
> No, atheists are the people for whom the Bible is someone else's problem.
> 
> You can't successfully ban religion, or force its suppression, as 
> Communism proved conclusively.  And I don't think that many atheists 
> would want to "make the Bible disappear", as it's an historical document 
> describing (in the OT) the oral traditions and some of the events of an 
> historically important area of the world, and (in the NT) the background 
> to a major world religion.
> 

He's confusing atheists (those that do not believe in gods) with 
antitheists (those who are against religion).

"We should invade [Muslim] countries, kill their leaders and convert 
them to Christianity."  --Ann Coulter, antitheist theist

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