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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: rbwinn
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:10
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On Jul 8, 2:42 pm, "Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al)"
<alwh...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Jul 8, 10:15 am, rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote:
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> > On Jul 7, 4:31�am, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote:
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> > > hhyaps...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > > > Since we know that when human die, every thing is gone.
> > > > The body decays and the consciousness disappear too. Nothing, except
> > > > memory and children, stay.
> > > > This is the human cycle and you are blind to it?
> > > > As I have said before, lots of human like you are greedy, they want to
> > > > be eternal. But an imaginary eternal heaven is for their god/gods, and
> > > > not for human.
> > > > Why are you always wanting to equate heaven for human, when it is
> > > > supposed to be the home for god/gods? What sane sense do you have?
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> > > The point is, that people who have nothing to lose except their lives,
> > > are not controllable politically. If you give them something to lose
> > > beyond that - their immortal souls - and tell them if they go against
> > > the particular political institution you put in place to control them as
> > > slaves - the church, they will lose even that, �then they may just be
> > > stupid enough to go along with the fiction.
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> > > Christianity offers two things to slaves: It makes them feel self
> > > important, and it tells them that if they are good little slaves, they
> > > will be equal to the highest in the land - possibly more than equal.
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> > > Cui Bono?
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> > > The slavemasters and priests, of course.
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> > > Robbo is just a good little member of the Church of Latter Day Slaves,
> > > that's all.
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> > > The thought that he is an unimportant person, and will always be that
> > > way, and that no one, not even God, actually gives a toss about him, and
> > > once he is dead they will care even less, is so unappealing to his ego,
> > > that he cannot bear to even consider the possibility it is true. It
> > > takes great courage to be an Atheist, courage and humility. Robbo has
> > > neither.
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> > > All he has is his Faith. Remove that and he has nothing.
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> > Well, atheism has nothing to offer.
> > Robert B. Winn
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> Except for freedom from the bullshit.
> And that really does free your mind.
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Without religion to oppose, atheists would do nothing at all.
Robert B. Winn
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From: rbwinn <rbwinn3@juno.com>
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Subject: Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
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