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Thread #150071   Message #3548307
Posted By: Steve Shaw
12-Aug-13 - 06:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion
Subject: RE: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion
So, since that is the case, let's hear all the professed atheists on this thread admit publicly and individually that there is a chance God exists....

Yep, I'm a professed atheist, as implacable as they come. And I'm happy to admit that there's a chance God exists. Weeee!

...after all you have just admitted that the difference between your belief in God and their belief is a just a matter of degree. And there is a chance that they may be right and you may be wrong.

Well no, not really. I have neither a belief nor a disbelief in God. Faith, you see, has played no part in my arriving at my position. All I've done is weighed up the evidence. My enquiries managed to eliminate superstition, fear, magic, myth, tradition, ceremony, miracles ancient and modern, shrouds, relics of the true cross, edicts from holy men, dodgy ancient texts and the uncorroborated claims of supposed witnesses. As for just a matter of degree, what you're missing is my view that the possibility of God's existing is about the same as there being seven-legged little blue men living on Saturn's rings, or as there being a tribe of fairies in my garden who only come out at night. As I have no wish to align meself with those who harbour such religious certainty that their hymns, prayers and the way they miseducate their children reflect it, you won't get me to say those things are impossible. As for right and wrong, I don't give a damn. We can never know. If you think I'm just a bit further along some kind of imaginary belief spectrum than the general mass of Godsquadders, you've got it lamentably wrong (like everything else you sour-facedly spout about). Hope this helps!