[extropy-chat] Atheists launch inquisition...

Mike Lorrey mlorrey at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 26 16:41:15 UTC 2004


--- Olga Bourlin <fauxever at sprynet.com> wrote:

> From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
> > Well, in that case I can clearly state that atheism is a tertullian
> > form of faith, particularly because it is inherently impossible to
> > prove a negative, i.e. it is impossible to prove the non-existence
> of
> > God. Ergo, atheists believe the impossible.
> 
> And one can just as clearly state that amermaidism, asantaclausism,
> aleprechaunism, amoonmaidenism, apurplepeopleism, afirebirism,
> atoothfairism
> (and any other such "faith" driven convictions) are Tertullian.
> 
> By the way, Mike, which god are you talking about here ...?

Doesn't matter. Your reducto ad absurdum is irrelevant, because they
are all subunits of the broad atheism/theism faith duality set. The
only POV outside that set is agnosticism, which essentially tells both
sides that none of them know enough to justify a claim one way or the other.

=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


	
		
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