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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: rbwinn
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:15
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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.

Well, atheism has nothing to offer.
Robert B. Winn
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