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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: Free Lunch
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:37
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:27:00 -0700, DanielSan <danielsan@speakeasy.net>
wrote in alt.atheism:

>rbwinn wrote:
>> On Jul 15, 7:15 pm, DanielSan <daniel...@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>>> rbwinn wrote:
>>>> On Jul 15, 1:00 am, "Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al)"
>>>> <alwh...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>>>> On Jul 15, 4:03 pm, rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Jul 14, 8:43?pm, "Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al)"
>>>>>> <alwh...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Jul 15, 1:40 am, ben_dolan_...@reet.com (Ben Dolan) wrote:
>>>>>>>> Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al) <alwh...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Jul 14, 2:54 pm, ben_dolan_...@reet.com (Ben Dolan) wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Thank you for your analysis, Peter. ?I was merely expanding on a
>>>>>>>>>>> statement from an atheist to show where it was leading: ?Atheists do
>>>>>>>>>>> not believe anything.
>>>>>>>>>> That's not true, we believe you're a fuckin' moron... We even have
>>>>>>>>>> evidence!
>>>>>>>>> I'm going to take that as an article of faith. ?The evidence isn't
>>>>>>>>> compelling. ?We do have evidence that he's a liar. ?So he could be
>>>>>>>>> acting incredibly stupid, or more likely be stupid, it's impossible to
>>>>>>>>> tell. ?But the evidence for lies is overwhelming.
>>>>>>>>> So, we believe he's as stupid as dog shit. ?But we have evidence, and
>>>>>>>>> thus no need of faith, that he's a liar.
>>>>>>>> I understand your point, but I believe we have overwhelming evidence of
>>>>>>>> both. Bobby is a classic newsgroup troll who desparately craves
>>>>>>>> attention. Lying is an excellent way to get attention, although it
>>>>>>>> normally means suffering considerable ridicule and insult in the
>>>>>>>> process.
>>>>>>>> But I also believe he's rather unintelligent (as most newsgroup trolls
>>>>>>>> tend to be). He has shown a remarkable inability to absorb and integrate
>>>>>>>> new information presented to him. There's no indication he reads
>>>>>>>> anything outside of the few newsgroups he spends countless hours posting
>>>>>>>> in. And he has shown a breathtaking lack of self awareness and maturity,
>>>>>>>> whether about his ridiculous physics kookiness or his puerile religious
>>>>>>>> nonsense. Taken together these point to someone suffering from mental
>>>>>>>> illness combined with a serious cognitive impairment, or as I prefer to
>>>>>>>> think of it, he's a fuckin' moron...
>>>>>>> OK, I'll agree it's a good summary.
>>>>>>> Al- Hide quoted text -
>>>>>>> - Show quoted text -
>>>>>> Profanity is the attempt of a weak mind to make a strong statement,
>>>>>> Al.  You are agreeing with someone who has a weak mind.
>>>>>> Robert B. Winn
>>>>> I agree or disagree with propositions.  Not people.
>>>>> And your statements are wrong.  Profanity can be used by weak minds to
>>>>> attempt to make a strong statement.  Just because someone uses profane
>>>>> language, does not mean they have a "weak mind".  And what do you mean
>>>>> by "weak mind"?
>>>>> Al- Hide quoted text -
>>>> A weak mind is one that cannot deal with reality.
>>> ...like thinking that a humanlike spirit created billions of galaxies
>>> with billions of stars so that one star can have a rock where, after
>>> billions of years, humans can eventually begin to populate it and,
>>> thousands of years after that, only then begin to realize the humanlike
>>> spirit's presence?  When the humans begin to do things that the
>>> humanlike spirit doesn't like, the spirit comes down as a human, gets
>>> himself killed, returns to life, eventually goes back home, all to
>>> protect his creation from himself?
>>>
>>> Who's the one that cannot deal with reality?
>>>
>> You.
>
>Fine.  Continue believing that God had to kill himself to protect his 
>creation from himself.

God sounds like he is mentally ill and a criminal danger to others.
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Subject: Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
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