Subj : Re: "Hams to the Rescue After Katrina" MSNBC News Article
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From : Matt Osborn
Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 23:35:44

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

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 18:49:17 -0700, Zoran Brlecic
<...WA7AA...@get.lost> wrote:

>Matt Osborn wrote:
>
>>>According to you, all atheists should be immoral by definition. It 
>>>follows that prisons should be overflowing with them. Yet, strangely 
>>>enough, in American prisons, Christians are over-represented, while 
>>>atheists (along with Jews and Muslims) are under-represented.
>> 
>> 
>> No, I don't think atheists are amoral or unmoral, I just don't think
>> it's possible to be an atheist.
>
>
>Well, then, you're clearly wrong, because I, for one, along with 
>millions of other people, am an atheist. I don't believe in your god, 
>nor do I believe in any other god until you provide objective evidence 
>instead of wishful thinking, "knowing in one's heart" and ancient myths.
>
>And if you still don't understand why, ask yourself why you don't 
>believe in Allah, Aphrodite, Ares, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Babaluaye, 
>Bacchus, Baldur, Bast, Bellona, Brahma, Brigid, Ceres, Cupid, Cerridwen, 
>Demeter, Diana, Dione, Dionysus, Eris, Eos, Eleggua, , El Shaddai, 
>Elohim, Eshu, Ereshkigal, Frigga, Frey, Freya, Gaea, Lord Genesa, Hades, 
>Hebe, Hera, Helios, Hel, Hephaestus, Hermes, Hestia, Horus, Ibeji, Ifa, 
>Inanna, Indra, Ishana, Ishtar, Isis, Janus, Juno, Jehovah, Jove, 
>Jupiter, Kali, Krishna, Kronos, Korravai, Loki, Lugh, Lord Indra, 
>Manitou, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mercurius, Morrigan, Nahuiquiahuitl, 
>Nanahuatzin, Nephthys, Neptune, Obatala, Odin, Ogun, Oshosi, Oshun, 
>Osiris, Oya, Orunmila, Olokun, Olodumare, Pluto, Persephone, Poseidon, 
>Proserpina, Quetzalcoatl, Ra, Lord Rama, Rhea, Saturn, Set, Selene, 
>Shango, Lord Siva, Tammuz, Thor, Tir, Tiw, Uranus, Venus, Vesta, Vishnu,
>Vesta, Vulcan, Wotan, Yahweh, Yemaya and Zeus.

You have made no case for atheism. All you have done is list a series
of things in which do not believe.  You have not listed what you do
believe or in what you have placed your faith.

Atheism is a logically faulty concept.  Being human, you cannot
possibly know everything.  What you may think of the unknown is
entirely up to you, but whatever that may be, will require just as
much faith as any other religion.  Your religion simply has different
trappings.


-- msosborn at msosborn dot com

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