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laconicsax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-08-10 03:59 AM
Response to Reply #17
20. A couple things.
First you may have missed the basis for this challenge, and the whole reason why atheists often speak out against the religious beliefs of others. That reason is the fact that certain types of religious individuals have a compulsion to evangelize and to do their best to get their beliefs accepted as empirical truth, taught as fact, and a significant influence onpublic policy. If that weren't a persistent problem, there wouldn't be the same response from non believers. The sharing of belief here isn't invited, but is uninvited. It is done deliberately and as a truth claim.

(People who don't believe that Abraham Lincoln was a time-traveling alien from the future don't write books and speak out agains those who do because there isn't an organized group pushing that belief on schools and trying to incorporate into governmental policy.)

The other thing is that epistemological relativism may be true for you, but it isnt true for everyone.
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