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To: JimRed

"If I am wrong, what have I lost? If you are wrong, what have you lost?"

A common question, I suppose. If you are wrong, then you die and return to dust. Since I already accept that as my eventual fate, I lose nothing.

If I am wrong, then I am wrong. I do not believe or disbelieve based on some promise of some reward or punishment after my death. That concept makes no sense to me whatsoever. I behave in my life as though this is the only life I get. That makes it very precious to me.

You have your belief. I have my disbelief. I suspect that we both behave in our lives in almost precisely the same ways.

I cannot believe just because I am fearful. That is not belief; it's something else. I disbelieve because I cannot believe. It is that simple.


111 posted on 01/26/2005 10:56:42 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: MineralMan
"I disbelieve because I cannot believe. It is that simple."

And despite what even many professing Christians want to believe, you are exactly right. Acts 13:48; 1 pet.2:8; Jude 4

733 posted on 01/27/2005 5:36:23 PM PST by Matchett-PI (Today's DemocRATS are either religious moral relativists, libertines or anarchists.)
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