From: Steve O on


"rbwinn" <rbwinn3(a)juno.com> wrote in message
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> On Jul 21, 10:08�pm, "Steve O" <nospamh...(a)thanks.com> wrote:
>> "rbwinn" <rbwi...(a)juno.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:efa8da13-56b6-4386-bfe5-c571b689a669(a)d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
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>> >> >God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
>>
>> >> You have no evidence at all about God.- Hide quoted text -
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>> > Would you like me to send you a copy of the Bible?
>> > Robert B. Winn
>>
>> You could, but it would be much better if you could provide some evidence
>> of
>> God as well.
>>
>> --
>> Steve O
>
> God sent His Only Begotten Son, Steve. If that was not enough for
> you, nothing I could do or say is going to convince you of anything.
> Robert B. Winn

Got any evidence that Jesus was the son of God?
Please don't say, "the Bible" - that isn't evidence of anything at all, it's
just an old, old story.

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Steve O
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Convicted by Earthquack
Exempt from purgatory by papal indulgence


From: Steve O on


"The Chief Instigator" <patrick(a)io.com> wrote in message
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> rbwinn <rbwinn3(a)juno.com> writes:
>>
>> God sent His Only Begotten Son, Steve. If that was not enough for
>> you, nothing I could do or say is going to convince you of anything.
>
> Sacre m�rde...this supposed god sent Steve? Funny, how your holy book has
> been in error for only a couple of thousand years...

LOL!
I missed that one - thanks for pointing it out.
I knew I'd been put here for a higher purpose!!

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Steve O
a.a. #2240 (Apatheist Chapter)
B.A.A.W.A.
Convicted by Earthquack
Exempt from purgatory by papal indulgence




From: Alex W. on

"rbwinn" <rbwinn3(a)juno.com> wrote in message
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On Jul 21, 7:03 pm, "Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al)"
<alwh...(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Jul 21, 5:44 pm, rbwinn <rbwi...(a)juno.com> wrote:


> > All atheists have European values. The difference between European
> > values and American values is that Europeans believe that people exist
> > to serve governments. Americans believe that governments exist to
> > serve people.
> > Robert B. Winn
>
> What an enormous load of bollocks. The idea of the rights of the
> individual (in western society) came from centuries of slow painful
> progress by Europeans.
>
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So why were the greatest atrocities in Europe in the last century?

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Were they?

Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Cultural Revolution.
Rwanda.
Cambodia.
Celine Dion.


From: BuddyThunder on
rbwinn wrote:
> On Jul 20, 11:57 pm, BuddyThunder <nos...(a)paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>> Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al) wrote:
>>
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>>> On Jul 21, 12:51 pm, rbwinn <rbwi...(a)juno.com> wrote:
>>>> On Jul 20, 2:53 pm, DanielSan <daniel...(a)speakeasy.net> wrote:
>>>>> rbwinn wrote:
>>>>>> On Jul 20, 10:00 am, DanielSan <daniel...(a)speakeasy.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> rbwinn wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Jul 20, 6:34�am, Stan-O <bndsna...(a)aol.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:27:44 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...(a)juno.com>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> No, a couple of atheists have told me that. ?They said he was a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Russian Orthodox and an alcoholic.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> He was an alcoholic.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> So, you're making things up again.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hint: He was not a Christian merely because an atheist claimed he was...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hint #2: ?What school did Stalin go to in 1888?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Stalin went to a Russian Orthodox seminary. ?He rejected what he was
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> taught there and became a mass murderer.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Only partially true. Like I told you before, politicians, and in
>>>>>>>>>>>>> particular tyrants, will say anything to gain or remain in power.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Well, Stalin did say he was an atheist. ?He told the truth about that.
>>>>>>>>>>> He never openly admitted this. In fact, his religious beliefs were
>>>>>>>>>>> pretty vague. What he hated was the concept of god as presented by the
>>>>>>>>>>> ROC. He did, however, find a political use for the church when it
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>>>>>>>>>> That is quite a statement. �So you are saying that Stalin did not
>>>>>>>>>> believe in the Communist Manifesto?
>>>>>>>>> Tyrants will use or believe anything to maintain their control. He
>>>>>>>>> probably found some parts useful, and ignored anything that
>>>>>>>>> contradicted his personally ideologies...pretty much the same with you
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>>>>>>>> Stalin tried to stamp out religion in the Soviet Union. It is well
>>>>>>>> documented.
>>>>>>> And what's that got to do with atheism?
>>>>>> Stalin was a prominent atheist of his time who is claimed to have been
>>>>>> a Christian by atheists of today.
>>>>> Don't change the subject. What has what Stalin tried to do relevant to
>>>>> atheism?
>>>>> --
>>>> So what is the matter? Stalin and Pol Pot were atheists. They will
>>>> never turn into Christians no matter how many times you try to claim
>>>> they were.
>>>> Don't you atheists ever take responsibility for anything?
>>>> Robert B. Winn
>>> Yes. Personal responsibility. I'm not Pol Pot, nor am I Joseph
>>> Stalin. Nor do they represent normal atheists.
>>> If you want to take responsibility for all crimes committed by
>>> religious people, feel free. There's plenty butchers in that camp.
>> Exactly, I never really understood the smear campaigns. I am only
>> responsible for my own actions, a responsibility I happily accept. I
>> cannot be held responsible for atrocities committed before I was born,
>> no matter how similar the perp's worldview is to mine.
>>
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>
> That is very commendable. Pol Pot was just an unassuming person also
> until he became a Communist dictator.

It didn't work with Joseph Stalin, it won't work with Pol Pot.

You are religiously insane. I won't compare you to any historical
figure, as it's pointless and irrelevant. I'll just state the assertion
and cite this thread as evidence.
From: Stan-O on
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:03:34 +0100, "Alex W." <ingilt(a)yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:


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>So why were the greatest atrocities in Europe in the last century?
>
>================
>
>Were they?
>
>Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
>The Cultural Revolution.
>Rwanda.
>Cambodia.
>Celine Dion.

If you are going to go that route, add Pauly Shore and Carrot Top to
the list....