asura calibre

If being an atheist means you don't believe in any kind of higher being than
yourself..
And there's no higher being than God...
Would that make God an atheist, and if so, would he deny his own existence?


*shrugs* People come up with the strangest things sometimes..

kevin

not true, who says I have to be higher? I'm just a part the the whole
world. Who says anything has to be on top?


see above, why does everything have to be heirarchical?

hmmm... sounds like 'how many angels could dance on the head of a pin' to
me

anyway, a good question

david v.

That is not what Atheism means.


There is no god.

Something that doesn't exist wouldn't exist to deny it's own existence.

Maybe they should try thinking for a second first.

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grgaud

[GR] not people... you. Try reasoning next time. --
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ýòwìe

Asura Calibre said in alt.flame.jesus.christ...

It doesn't. There may be 'higher beings' whatever that was supposed to
mean - but no gods (whatever *that* is supposed to mean).

--
Rev. yowie - ULC 1999 - JRA #1

'I doesn't have "to make sense" Yowie!'
-Pastor Frank

asura calibre

No offense man, but I don't think it'd hurt to read more than just the
content of the post...if you look at the subject line you'll notice that
someone asked me that. I just passed it along to get people's thoughts on
it.

That and I thought it was kind of amusing.

connie

There are no stupid questions when one is reaching to learn.

A *theist* is one who has (or believes in) a personal God. The letter *a*
used before a base noun indicates *without*. So the atheist is simply
someone without a personal God. It doesn't mean a non-spiritual person.

To pretend we have answers or, worse yet, *the* answer is hypocrisy. It's
all a mystery, and none of us know. We do know *it's* bigger than we, so we
must be humble before it.

Oh, Great Mystery, whose voice I hear in the winds, and whose breath gives
life to all the world - hear me - I come before you, one of your children.
I am small and weak. I need your strength and wisdom. Let me walk in
beauty and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset. Make me
wise, so that I may know the things you have taught my People, the lesson
you have hidden in every leaf and rock. I seek strength not to be superior
to my brothers, but to be able to fight my greatest enemy, myself. Make me
ever ready to come to you, with clean hands and straight eyes, so when life
fades as a fading sunset, my spirit may come to you without shame.
(paraphrasing Sioux Chief Yellow Hawk; he said *Great Spirit*)

Ærchie

without a thought for posterity Connie plundered three dragon hoards and
indiscretely shared the experience with the world by writing :


hmmmmmmmmmmm - I would say that a theist is someone who believes in a god.

The word personal is a red herring.

Connie - I have some good news and some bad news for you.

The good news is that you are a Theist.

The bad news is that there is no god.
Pope Ærchie 1st, The Dope Pope, Preacher of the five leaf way

woodstock

The term "Atheist" is irrelevant to an Atheist. A true Atheist doesn't call
him/herself "Atheist"- it's merely a label to define an individual from a
theological perspective. -woodstock-

david v.

Oh, look... the shit breathed woodstock is back making
asinine statements proving he/she/it is as worthless as a
the shit left on a fly's ass.

--
David V.
Yosemite Llama Ranch

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