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Article #12760Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: Jon Green
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:32
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:32
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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 And I don't think that many atheists would want to "make the Bible disappear", as it's an historical document describing (in the OT) the oral traditions and some of the events of an historically important area of the world, and (in the NT) the background to a major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. Jon -- SPAM BLOCK IN USE! To reply in email, replace 'deadspam' with 'green-lines'.
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