From: rbwinn on
On Jun 21, 12:40�am, "Alex W." <ing...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> "rbwinn" <rbwi...(a)juno.com> wrote in message
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> So atheists are bigots by their own definition.
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> ============
>
> Not if they don't have any children.

Some atheists do have children, but most atheists seem to kill their
own children before they are born. The ones who kill their own
children seem more bigoted to me.
Robert B. Winn
From: rbwinn on
On Jun 21, 12:43�am, "Alex W." <ing...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> "rbwinn" <rbwi...(a)juno.com> wrote in message
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> All public education in the United States is now atheistic.
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> ==========
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> IOW, it conforms to the law of the land.

The law of the land guaranteed freedom of religion, right to trial by
jury, free and open elections, and many other things that do not exist
in the United States today.
Robert B. Winn
From: rbwinn on
On Jun 21, 3:51 am, BuddyThunder <nos...(a)paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> rbwinn wrote:
> > On Jun 20, 3:13�pm, BuddyThunder <nos...(a)paradise.net.nz> wrote:
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> >>>> The Petrine epistles were not written by the fisherman character Peter.
> >>>> Those epistles were written at the end of the second century CE or
> >>>> beginning of the third century CE. �The Greek in the Petrine epistles is
> >>>> very refined. �It would be like reading Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richards
> >>>> Almanac with references to Gandalf, Frodo, trains and planes.
> >>> Well, you atheists have some strange ideas. �Your problem is that all
> >>> you have is talk. �We have the Bible.
> >> How do you think that handicaps us? I'm very happy to accept honest
> >> inquiry over ancient myth.- Hide quoted text -
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> > The only thing you ever talk about is the Bible.
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> What an odd thing to say.- Hide quoted text -
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You have never discussed anything else with me.
Robert B. Winn
From: rbwinn on
On Jun 21, 3:54�am, BuddyThunder <nos...(a)paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> rbwinn wrote:
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> > Well, you seem to have faith in Spiderman and Harry Potter.
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> And you don't believe that London exists.- Hide quoted text -
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I don't? So where does the Queen of England live?
Robert B. Winn
From: rbwinn on
On Jun 21, 3:55 am, BuddyThunder <nos...(a)paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> rbwinn wrote:
> > On Jun 20, 3:20 pm, BuddyThunder <nos...(a)paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> >> rbwinn wrote:
> >>> On Jun 20, 3:15 am, Darrell Stec <darrell_s...(a)webpagesorcery.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> rbwinn wrote:
> >>>>> On Jun 19, 8:34�am, Darrell Stec <darrell_s...(a)webpagesorcery.com>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>> rbwinn wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Jun 18, 3:54�pm, Darrell Stec <darrell_s...(a)webpagesorcery.com>
> >>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>> Right now, just about every reader on these newsgroups is convinced you
> >>>>>> are nothing but a liar and cannot defend your absurd statements by
> >>>>>> providing evidence.
> >>>>>>> Well, I
> >>>>>>> could not remember Andrew and Thaddeus when I tried to think of them.
> >>>>>>> What do we do now?
> >>>>>> Read your bible and tell us the names of the twelve apostles (which you
> >>>>>> claim, not I). �Why are you avoiding answering this very easy question?
> >>>>>> �Is it because you actually know you cannot reliably number them even
> >>>>>> using the bible? �Is it because you actually know you cannot reliably
> >>>>>> name them even using the bible?
> >>>>>>> Robert B. Winn
> >>>>> Well, I have seen atheists gert worked up about this before.  What
> >>>>> difference does it make to an atheist?  I thought you did not believe
> >>>>> in the apostles.  So why are you so worried about what their names
> >>>>> were?
> >>>>> Robert B. Winn
> >>>> Just to demonstrate that you are a liar and cannot name them.  You are wrong
> >>>> about the number and wrong about the fact you can name them.  Being an
> >>>> atheist has nothing to do about investigating the contents of a work of
> >>>> literature, fiction, that has been handed down through the millenia.  I
> >>>> don't have to believe any events in The Lord of Rings to actually discuss
> >>>> the contents of the trilogy while at the same time I can challenge someone
> >>>> who might assert that Gandalf wore a robe of purple and pink where the
> >>>> story does not provide evidence of it.
> >>>> Using your logic, nobody would study any literature that was a work of
> >>>> fiction if they did not believe the contents were true and if they believed
> >>>> that evidence could not be provided to back up the stories.  You do know
> >>>> that both private and public schools require studying the fictional stories
> >>>> of Shakesphere, don't you?
> >>>> --
> >>> Yes, and I know atheists require study of Harry Potter.  That does not
> >>> mean I think it is a good thing.  What I do notice about the Bible is
> >>> that from what exists today, the Bible seems historically accurate,
> >>> whereas, some other accounts of history such as Sennacherib's account
> >>> of the Assyrian invasion of Judea seem inaccurate and self-serving.
> >>> Then we have the kind of atheistic ideas that you continually expound,
> >>> but have no proof are true.  It is my opinion that anti-Christ agendas
> >>> are always based on false information.
> >> You're still denying that London exists, huh?
>
> >> Could you point to the evidence of a global flood? How about a young
> >> earth? The historicity of Moses? Is the Bible really historically accurate?
>
> >> You're probably not in a position to demand evidence.- Hide quoted text -
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> > My friend Stuart Dowling says that London exists.  He says that is is
> > Harry Potter who does not exist.
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> You're both religiously deluded about that by your own standards.- Hide quoted text -
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Well, no. Neither Stuart Dowling nor I suscribe to sorcery.
Atheists, on the other hand always have something about sorcery in
their signatures and nicknames similar to Ku Klux Klan members.
Robert B. Winn