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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Plato talked about monotheism, too. But the US is not Platonist.
    what does the United States have to do with your claim that Christianity invented monotheism?........Christians believed in one God for about over a thousand years before anyone knew there was a North America let alone a United States.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    fuck off. Jerkoffs like you make your religion look like it is for assholes.
    and atheists like you make atheists look irrational......
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    Quote Originally Posted by Concart View Post
    : a person who does not believe in the existence of a god or any gods : one who subscribes to or advocates atheism

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atheist

    :a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods.

    (source: Oxford Languages)

    The dictionary definitions clearly make the distinction between someone who disbelieves and someone who lacks belief. I fall in the latter category.
    atheists changed the definition of atheist about twenty years ago.......I think it was because they were afraid of being alone.......an atheist denies the existence of deity, agnostics are the ones who withhold belief.....

    https://www.quora.com/When-did-the-d...ew-age-version
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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank Apisa View Post
    My initial response to reading that posting was, "Oh, shit, he's gone off the edge." I saw nothing of importance to that posting...particularly since you did not offer a predicate for why you posted it.
    Atheism:

    "Do you believe that God exists?" "No."
    "Do you believe that God doesn't exist?" "No."

    Agnosticism:

    "Does God exist?" "I don't know."
    "Does God not exist?" "I don't know."

    In another forum I initiated a post that was titled (and began with) "I do not believe gods exist…but I do not believe there are no gods."

    Took a lot of shit in that thread...people accusing me of saying contradictory things.

    But there was no contradiction.

    I mention this because in essence, I agree with what you wrote...

    ...I do not "believe" that aliens exist...but I also do not "believe" there are no aliens.

    What you wrote is entirely consistent.

    But I saw no reason for it being written...and (perhaps erroneously) felt a note of desperation in it.

    My apologies if I was flip in my response.
    No apologies needed. Just curious why you found it "sad" or me "going off the edge". That is all.

    But yes you're right. There is no contradiction.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Uh that's exactly what "agnostic atheist" means!!!!
    lol....there is no such thing as a agnostic atheist......they are in fact contradictory terms........
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    'Atheist' and 'Theist' are kind of the same in that it portrays*a 'Belief', that neither can prove or disprove.

    'Agnostic', is probably a better descriptor of 'Non-Believers'.

    "Agnosticism
    Agnosticism is the view that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable.Wikipedia"
    this thread isn't about non-believers.......its about god-deniers......
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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    lol....there is no such thing as a agnostic atheist......they are in fact contradictory terms........
    So belief and knowledge contradict each other?

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    Where did she say all that you lying sack of shit

    You racists confuse easily

    You see Black Lives Matter means that people who are black have lives and those lives are important

    For some reason you racists think it says ONLY BLACK LIVES Matter and no other lives mean anything and because we are black we are going to kill everyone else

    Much like thinking that when your mother told your sister she loved her YOU heard “I love you and I hate your brother because he is scum and I’m going to kill him in his sleep some day”

    You people are insane and hear weird things that are not there

    Racists have malformed brains or something
    "racists think it says ONLY BLACK LIVES Matter and no other lives mean anything" This should be printed on posters and t-shirts. It's exactly how they think.


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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    this thread isn't about non-believers.......its about god-deniers......
    My apologies. I thought I was adding something to the Discussion here by noting that the 'God-Deniers' and the 'God-Believers' had something in common.
    Neither Group could PROVE their position. Each Group operated solely on 'Belief'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Hmm. More likely something else less easily diagnosed and fixed by going to church... marital issues, financial and/or career problems, or just clinical depression.
    If it were me having more than one convo with the person, I'd ask if they ever considered checking out different religions to see if another belief resonated.


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    Quote Originally Posted by christiefan915 View Post
    If it were me having more than one convo with the person, I'd ask if they ever considered checking out different religions to see if another belief resonated.
    Shopping for 'Gods' rather than delving into a/your Personal Philosophy?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    that's a rather ignorant question, don't you think?........have you bothered to read my posts?....
    I think you are an asshole. That is all there is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Shopping for 'Gods' rather than delving into a/your Personal Philosophy?
    First, I'm going by Dork Soul's claim that the woman wasn't happy being an atheist. Second, this is how women talk to each other, sharing stories and offering suggestions. Think of it as recipes.


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    Quote Originally Posted by christiefan915 View Post
    First, I'm going by Dork Soul's claim that the woman wasn't happy being an atheist. Second, this is how women talk to each other, sharing stories and offering suggestions. Think of it as recipes.
    Or soap stories.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Or soap stories.
    Soap operas? Sure. General Hospital v. The Young and the Restless.


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