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Re: OT: Religion or America is a religion
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fred White <[log in to unmask]>
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fred White <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:23:22 -0700
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On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 10:47 AM, Erik Vistica wrote:

>  Oh Wirt, how can you know so much and be so ignorant of the love of
> God?

<<snip>>

Socrates told his persecutors (prior to their executing him for
refusing to profess a belief in God) that neither they nor he knew
there was a God but that he differed from them in knowing that he
didn't know.

Neither Wirt nor I are atheists. We are agnostics.

Theists (of all sects) believe in the existence of a God (without any
proof). Atheists believe in the non-existence of a God (without any
proof). Agnostics (like Socrates) acknowledge that (in the absence of a
proof in either direction) they simply don't know one way or the other.

FW

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