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Default Theists are destroying America ( Theists can't understand what atheism means ( Dietary ethics))

On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:07:23 -0500, Mike Lovell > wrote:

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>On 2012-08-09, dh@. <dh@> wrote:
>>>America was not established to have any dominant ideology, The United
>>>States was meant to be 'a free marketplace of ideas,' where every
>>>opinion could be heard and considered.

>>
>> Then why can school kids no longer celebrate Christmas at Christmas, and
>> Easter at Easter?

>
>Rubbish, of course they can.
>
>The government (through the schools) just cannot endorse a specific
>religion. As per the US Constitution.
>
>> . . .
>>>The American people have a right to know that in Atheism
>>>there is a moral, sensible, and scientific alternative to religion.

>>
>> All you're referring to is people putting their faith in the possibility
>> that no intelligent being(s) had any deliberate influence on how things
>> developed on this or probably any other planet. If God does exist, science
>> teaches us how he did and does things and atheism does nothing to help with any
>> of it.

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>That's not faith.


Faith is faith. Too bad you don't like it, but that's how it is. WHY don't
you like the fact that faith is faith, can you explain that?

>You assert there's a intelligent creator,


No I sure don't. I do go farther than you're apparently capable of going and
consider the possibility though.

>you prove it. Until then we
>won't believe in it.
>
>Science doesn't teach us about God, it teaches us about the Universe.


If God exists science teaches us things about how he did/does things even if
you are honestly unable to comprehend.