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armyowalgreens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-01-09 03:19 AM
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167. We do not know that God exists. You may have faith that God exists...
But that in no way means that you know God exists.

If faith is personal, you cannot possibly justify using God's will as a part of law or justice. We are entering into the same types of arguments being made by the right-wing christian infiltrators. They believe that God's law is man's laws. Even though there is no way to prove God's existence and therefore no way to prove that a will of God exists.


"I can prove it to my satisfaction. Perhaps not to yours, if your mind is closed on the subject."- I'm a strong agnostic. I believe that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God. However, my mind is never closed on any subject.


I am simply trying to figure out what your qualifications are in order to consider someone evil. You must be able to demonstrate an objective method of determining if someone is evil. Otherwise, it is purely subjective.

You may believe that someone is evil. But if "evil" nature is subjective, it is of no use to label someone evil in the context of societal justice.
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