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At 09:00 PM 9/21/98 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >I (as a militant atheist) merely say that if you can define your God, I can >probably prove he doesn't exist. Unless, of course, your definition is so >broad as to have no meaning in the first place. As a thinker I find the term atheism dignifies the concept of theism, so I find it offensive. Theists are primitives and one needn't stoop. In my religion, saying unprovable things in public is a stonable offense. Joe Momma
On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Anonymous wrote: [...] > In my religion, saying unprovable things in public > is a stonable offense. I bet that makes peaple talking about program termination happy.
Well, yes, there *is* a problem in defining your stance by opposition to others, but the term is useful, nonetheless. Simply saying "unchurched" or "realist" or "non-religous" sometimes simply doesn't say enough, or mean enough to others to convey all of the meaning necessary. | At 09:00 PM 9/21/98 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: | | >I (as a militant atheist) merely say that if you can define | your God, I can | >probably prove he doesn't exist. Unless, of course, your | definition is so | >broad as to have no meaning in the first place. | | As a thinker I find the term atheism dignifies the | concept of theism, so I find it offensive. Theists | are primitives and one needn't stoop. | | In my religion, saying unprovable things in public | is a stonable offense. | | Joe Momma