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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

#14097
From: BuddyThunder
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:39
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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.

There is no point when the ability for critical thought has been so 
deeply buried because the church does all your thinking for you.
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