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Message 12 of 31 (708169)
10-06-2013 3:05 AM 		Reply to: Message 11 by Phat
10-06-2013 2:38 AM

Re: Is It Possible?
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I think its a bit arrogant for humans on a dustspeck in the middle of a solar system surrounding one of hundreds of billions of stars--nevermind galaxies---to deny the possibility of a Creator..but it appears some humans are hardwired to trust their own species intelligence at the expense of someOne in charge
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Grrrrrr
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Very few, if any, atheists deny the possibility of a creator god.
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What we flatly deny is the type of God that religious people believe in - the inteventionist type that needs worshipping and so on.
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No rational person could totally dismiss the *possibility* of the sort of the non-interventionist God, or even a dead God. But most atheists believe, for various reasons, that it's now vanishingly unlikely.
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10-11-2013 3:52 AM 		Reply to: Message 27 by GDR
10-10-2013 6:51 PM

Re: Is It Possible?
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I don't think anyone did a better job of explaining the concept of hell than did C S Lewis. Here is a quote from that tremendous allegory concerning hell called "THe Great Divorce".
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CS Lewis's best mate JRR Tolkein did the best job of explaining Orks and Ents too.
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They used to sit together in the Eagle & Child pub in Oxford and talk about their fantasies.
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CS Lewis has no more knowledge about the fantasy of heaven and hell than Tolkein did about Hobbiton. He's just making it up! It's not based on anything he actually knows.
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