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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: Richard Meredith
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:20
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rbwinn3@juno.com (rbwinn) wrote:

> *From:* rbwinn <rbwinn3@juno.com>
> *Date:* Fri, 4 Jul 2008 19:54:27 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> On Jul 4, 11:49_am, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote:
> > Richard Meredith wrote:
> > > In article <g4lbtl$9p...@cam-news1.cambridge.arm.com>,
> > > chris.sh...@arm.nospam.com (Chris Shore) wrote:
> >
> > >> *From:* "Chris Shore" <chris.sh...@arm.nospam.com>
> > >> *Date:* Fri, 4 Jul 2008 15:25:57 +0100
> >
> > >> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
> > 
> > 
> >>news:b5ef084b-b578-47aa-b9bf-1285e1588579@27g2000hsf.googlegroups.co
> m.
> > >> ..
> >
> > >>> Well, there is an earthen ramp that the Assyrian army built to 
> > get
> > >>> over the city wall at Lachish. _Atheists do not believe in the
> > >> earthen
> > >>> ramp.
> > >> Of course atheists believe in the ramp. It exists and its 
> > existence
> > >> cannot
> > >> be denied. But the existence of the ramp does not prove that the
> > >> entire
> > >> OT is fact, nor does it prove anything, anything at all, about 
> > God.
> >
> > >> What is your point in pointing out the existence of this thing?
> >
> > > There is no point. Usenet discussions about religion are seldom 
> > anything
> > > more than an opportunity for all sorts of people to restate their
> > > particular set of beliefs loudly and vociferously while paying 
> > little
> > > attention and less respect to the views of anyone else.
> >
> > Oh come ON, poor old Robbo has been given a test of faith: he has 
> > to go
> > up against satanic atheists and all sorts of sinners to test his
> > beliefs. We have to at least give him a run for his money.
> >
> > He is obviously fairly deluded.
> >
> > Its just a way of passing the time..- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
> 
> Actually I was discussing the Galilean transformation equations with
> scientists before atheists started posting to me in
> sci.physics.relativity.

Atheists, theists - what's the difference? They're both equally dogmatic
that what they happen to believe is the one and only version of the truth,
despite a complete inability to prove it - or even put up a decent set of
repeatable and verifiable evidence that supports their position.
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Subject: Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: richard@rmeredith.co.uk (Richard Meredith)
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:20 +0100 (BST)
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