Subj : Re: "Hams to the Rescue After Katrina" MSNBC News Article
To   : alt.ham-radio.vhf-uhf,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.dx,rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.policy
From : Mike Andrews
Date : Mon Sep 26 2005 03:21:46

From Newsgroup: alt.ham-radio.vhf-uhf

In rec.radio.amateur.dx Zoran Brlecic <...WA7AA...@get.lost> wrote:
> Matt Osborn wrote:

>>>>>>In all cases, they believe and act according to their beliefs.  That
>>>>>>the atheists fall prey to their unrecognized beliefs cannot be
>>>>>>disputed.
>>>>>
>>>>>And this is because you say so?
>>>>
>>>>Please counter the argument.  If atheists do not have faith in their
>>>>beliefs, then upon what basis would they judge their choices?
>>>
>>>First of all, atheism is non-belief in deities. That's it. Anything else 
>>>you're adding to this concept is your own projection.
>>>Second, you're equivocating and word-playing on the term "belief". What 
>>>beliefs are we talking about in atheism? Atheists don't believe in gods 
>>>- a lack of belief is not belief any more than baldness is a hair color.
>>>So, then, what beliefs? When you define this I'll "counter the argument"
>> 
>> Belief requires faith in something unknown. I see no difference if one
>> were to name that unknown G-d or call it by some other name.
>> Regardless of the name, we attribute 'correctness' to something we do
>> not know.

> What has this got to do with atheism?

More to the point, what has this got to do with alt.ham-radio.vhf-uhf,
rec.radio.amateur.antenna, rec.radio.amateur.dx, or
rec.radio.amateur.equipment?

Please, folks, take it to E-mail or to some group more suited to discussion
of philosophy and religion. I'd like to see something having to do with radio 
here. 

Apropos which, I see on the R-390 list that someone actually managed
to hear SAQ's arc broadcast on 17.2 KHz last week. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin

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