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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is getting way too repetitive. I think I'm done after this, so please try to read this one, since you apparently haven't read the others.

Bottom line - Dawkins creates his own categories to describe himself, so I used his own categories. How is that not fair? But I'm not going to shoe-horn Christians into Dawkins' categories because they make no sense for Christians -- Dawkins' categories make Tea Partiers into the only real Christians and we all know that's wrong.

Have a good night![/quote]

In his own words, he is an atheist, specifically a de facto atheist. That's his category.

I know why this bothers so many people. Theists take a leap of faith to reach our truth. It would be comforting to think the atheist is guilty of an equally unscientific leap, namely to commit the error of inferring the negative conclusion on Gods existence. But they don't.

If there is a smugness to atheists, it is that our belief requires faith, and they reject anything other than reason. Why get defensive about it?  It's true!  You know it, your priest or minister tells you that, and its in the Bible.  If that bothers you then I think you are insecure in your faith.

Lastly you can try to twist Dawkins' words into a redefinition of atheism if you like. But then what is left of the term is meaningless. You will find no atheists to debate, because only a smattering of mentally unbalanced or illiterate people will remain.  And then you will have to pick up where you left off, except with RantingAgnostic, and Agnostic Hitchens, and an Agnostic Dawkins. But you will be debating the same people with the same ideas. And they will not in the least feel thwarted by the idea that you have somehow extracted an admission that they were never 100% certain. Because they never said it to begin with. [/quote]

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