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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingAtheist]
Just to clarify, atheists don't say Christianity is a fairy tale, or that God is a fairy in the sky, but rather that there is exactly as much evidence for belief in gods as for any given fairy in the sky. While you may not like this, this is objectively true. Furthermore, the Bible is some book that some men wrote. It's a perfectly valid opinion to find it silly to believe in that with no evidence.

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Sorry to break this to you, Ranting Atheist, but you've just described an agnostic not an atheist. An agnostic is uncertain about the possibility of God, but not an atheist. I know some atheists like to try to define away the distinction between agnostic and atheist, so that whether you have some or total doubt, they call you an atheist. Obviously the people who want to redefine all agnostics as atheists realize that 100% certainty that God doesn't exist is intellectually indefensible.  But this has always struck me as silly, because if everybody with a even slight question about God is an atheist, then you've redefined Mother Theresa as an atheist, and you've also redefined all people who call themselves "agnostic" right out of existence by relabeling them all atheists.

Not to mention, the agnostics who would prefer to redefine doubt/agnosticism into atheism are doing a real disservice to Mother Theresa
 and all the other agnostics, by calling them atheists when they would prefer to be called normal people with doubt, or just agnostics, thank you very much.[/quote]

You can't claim With 100 percent certainty that there aren't green fairies dancing around me right now, it doesn't make it any lesS ridiculous. Look up "the scientific principle".
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You make a valid philosophical point. And it cuts to the very heart of the atheist/agnostic hairsplitting. Unfortunately, PP will miss the point entirely, and rather than addressing the underlying epistemological question, will take this as a personal, below-the-belt attack on her personal beliefs.[/quote]

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