On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:03:09 -0700,
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:
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>Alan S wrote:
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>> On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:49:24 -0700,
>> "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
>> wrote:
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>>>IMO "atheists" have minds
>>>just as closed as their "fundamentalist" Christian opponents
>>>- both viewpoints are a matter of "faith".
>>
>>
>> How do you come to that conclusion? One is a matter of faith
>> but the other is a lack of faith in a deity or deities.
>>
>> I'm not a passionate atheist; I'm a bemused bystander when I
>> come in contact with passionate theists who seem to be
>> otherwise rational people. I don't have a belief that there
>> is no god or gods, just a lack of belief that there is.
>
>What I would call an "agnostic", but Mr. Horne disagrees!
>(Obviously we define the term differently.)
Defining terms is a major hurdle in the discussion of this
particular subject.
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