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In reply to the discussion: Good Friday’s big question: Is doubt good? [View all]edhopper
(33,479 posts)33. The 7 year old boy was smart to say that.
Since the whole Exodus story and Moses himself are just myths. Never happened and he didn't exist. They were borrowed from Babylonian stories.
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"Art, like faith, doesn't give us a place to stop. It offers us a place to start."
cbayer
Apr 2012
#3
Art, like faith, doesn't give us a place to stop. It offers us a place to start.
AlbertCat
Apr 2012
#89
Not in the way traditional (as opposed to fundie) Christians actually use it
Lydia Leftcoast
Apr 2012
#15
My experiences are similar to yours. Now I embrace the uncertainty and I am humbled.
cbayer
Apr 2012
#18
The assumptions I make about religion are based on every religions figure I have ever met.
eqfan592
Apr 2012
#22
But an atheist by definition is certain there is no god (with maybe a small scintilla of not being
cbayer
Apr 2012
#23
You've been here long enough to know that VERY FEW atheists define themselves that way.
PassingFair
Apr 2012
#25
When people tell believers that they are delusional, that is saying that what they believe
cbayer
Apr 2012
#26
That discussion was about the validity of religious experiences by psychotic people.
Warren Stupidity
Apr 2012
#85
If you consider yourself an atheist, you claim to have specific knowledge of the supernatural's
PassingFair
Apr 2012
#47
Many Atheists eshew the label. Mostly because of the "accepted" definition.
PassingFair
Apr 2012
#41
I let people define themselves in these regards, and put little weight on what others may say about
cbayer
Apr 2012
#43
Did I call you irrational? No. I called you down for telling others that THEY were.
darkstar3
Apr 2012
#70
Another assumption, this time about my "perspective" and where it lies in relation to yours.
darkstar3
Apr 2012
#75
I HAVE searched the literature. Psychology is something I'm pretty familiar with.
darkstar3
Apr 2012
#71
Maybe the terminology and labels ought to change. All seem to embrace the unknown.
pinto
Apr 2012
#27
Yet another unimpressive claim of finding "truth" in a non-existent middle. Yawn.
darkstar3
Apr 2012
#13
Would you be willing to admit that there are posters here who say they are atheists and who claim
Thats my opinion
Apr 2012
#81