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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: The Natural Philosopher
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:49
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Richard Meredith wrote:
> In article <g4lbtl$9pq$1@cam-news1.cambridge.arm.com>,
> chris.shore@arm.nospam.com (Chris Shore) wrote:
> 
>> *From:* "Chris Shore" <chris.shore@arm.nospam.com>
>> *Date:* Fri, 4 Jul 2008 15:25:57 +0100
>>
>> "rbwinn" <rbwinn3@juno.com> wrote in message 
>> news:b5ef084b-b578-47aa-b9bf-1285e1588579@27g2000hsf.googlegroups.com.
>> ..
>>
>>> 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..
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