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[quote=Anonymous]Why do you all insist on paraphrasing?  No one said that in this thread that I can find.  What was said is that the problem of evil (ie pediatric cancer) makes an anthropomorphic interactive omniscient god logically unlikely to exist.  "Worth" never enters it. [/quote]

I am paraphrasing because it is the theme throughout all the comments. That is how theme works.

[quote]Non-religious people have positions on religion also.  You properly type "religion" forum, and not "religious" forum, so at least you got that part right.  But I tell you what: as soon as the world stops making policy based on religion I will stop posting here or elsewhere.  Deal? [/quote]

I don't get this. This is a democracy (sort of) and people can make decisions based on whatever worldview they hold. You are making policy/voting decisions on atheism. Some people are making decisions based on whatever huge corporations are telling/selling them. Why single religion out? In a democracy all ideas are subject to debate in the public forum. No religion is physically forcing anything on anyone. For that, go to a sharia law country.

[quote]If it can't be understood, then people should stop claiming to understand it, right?  If it can't be understood, then the idea that there is no god or that there is and it is Xenu are just as valid as your position, correct?[/quote]

No one is claiming to understand it completely.

[quote] This thing you type in bold, as pointed out again and again and again, is a position nearly no atheist holds.  Atheism is not nihilism. Atheism purports no claim to solace.  It is simply the position that there is insufficient evidence to believe in a god or gods, and nothing more.  Please don't ascribe anything more to it unless a specific person claims to hold that belief.[/quote]

I still have yet to hear any secular position aside from it being random. Random that universe came to be, random that life emerged, random that we evolved in a certain way, random that some are born rich and powerful and others born weak and poor. Random when illness strikes, random when kids die of cancer. Just bad luck.

[quote] I will respectfully point out that you are also an atheist with regard to all the gods you do not believe in, as well as many other myths and mythical creatures with which you would find belief in difficult.[/quote]

Not how I see it. Religious belief in general is a dimension of human life, one shared by all religious from the caveman down to Christians today. Christianity is just the full truth and fulfillment of all those human strivings for transcendence. Atheists deny this whole dimension of humanity.[/quote]

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