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crashfrog

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Message 31 of 33 (308256)
05-01-2006 4:29 PM

Reply to: Message 26 by Heathen
05-01-2006 10:08 AM

by planting doubt where maybe there was none before..

Doubt is not the end of knowledge; it is the beginning of it. You can't "plant doubt". They doubt, or they do not. It's hardly a noble act to shield someone from fact lest they doubt something.

what's to be gained by stomping in and destroying their safe 'happy ever after' little universe?

But we're back to the assertion from the OP that you couldn't support - that atheism means the end of happiness.

ignorance really can be bliss...

You don't know that it was for that guy.

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Heathen

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Message 32 of 33 (308258)
05-01-2006 4:46 PM

Reply to: Message 31 by crashfrog
05-01-2006 4:29 PM

crashfrog writes:

But we're back to the assertion from the OP that you couldn't support - that atheism means the end of happiness.

I'm not sure that (if anything) is what I asserted.
I certainly could give no guarantee that athiesm would make him happier.

could you?

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robinrohan

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Message 33 of 33 (308273)
05-01-2006 5:47 PM

Reply to: Message 26 by Heathen
05-01-2006 10:08 AM

ignorance really can be bliss...

I know from personal experience that ignorance is not bliss. I'm ignorant, and I'm not the least bit blissful.

In my view, we should be honest about such beliefs, but not necessarily outspoken.

God does not "exist."---Paul Tillich, Christian theologian

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