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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: The Natural Philosopher
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:40
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rbwinn wrote:
> On Jul 7, 4:31�am, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote:
>> hhyaps...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Cui Bono?
>>
>> The slavemasters and priests, of course.
>>
>> Robbo is just a good little member of the Church of Latter Day Slaves,
>> that's all.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> All he has is his Faith. Remove that and he has nothing.
> 
> So what are you saying, that you are a better person than I am?

No, you are saying that.

I don't do 'better' and make MORAL judgements.

I leave that to people who think that absolute mortality exists.


> Robert B. Winn
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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:40:43 +0100
From: The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c>
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