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[quote=Anonymous][quote]By denying the existence of God, you first must contemplate His existence. In order to be an atheist at all, a person must ask, "Is there God?", because a-theist is a negative answer, meaning "no God."[/quote] Let me stop you right here. Your framing is all off: the default position is that God doesn't exist. Neither does Pippi Longstocking, Santa Claus, or the Easter Bunny. (Not trying to be rude here; to the rationalist, they have equal claims to reality). I'm here blithely living in the rational world, and someone comes by and says, "Why don't you believe in God?" I'm not asking the question; you are. It's perfectly reasonable to ask two things: 1) what do you even mean by "god", and 2) why one Earth should I. Just for the sake of argument, what's the accepted word for "one who doesn't believe in alien abductions"? "Atheist" begs the question in the same way.[/quote]
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