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Author Topic:   Get Over Your Fear of Atheism
Fosdick 
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Message 68 of 169 (393183)
04-03-2007 7:32 PM
Reply to: Message 50 by Phat
04-03-2007 12:52 AM


Re: Several Key Points
Phat wrote:
Just make it clear that atheism is not for everyone, and each has to decide what is Faith and what is self deception. One mans self deception is not universally true for everyone.
Hi, Phat,
Please allow me to paraphrase this with a different twist:
'Just make it clear that reasoning is not for everyone, and each has to decide what is Faith and what is reasonable. One man's Faith is not universally true for everyone...but one man's reasoning could be universally true for everyone.'
Think of Newton, for example, who understood the difference between reasoning and Faith. He proved rather convincingly that his universal gravitational constant applies to everyone universally.
Could you be more specfic about what you mean by "self deception"? Self-deception is what an atheist hates most.
”HM

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