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Atheist finds 'God' after 50 years
Gaurdian ^
| December 11, 2004
| Laura Smith
Posted on 12/10/2004 7:43:39 PM PST by Lorianne
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posted on
12/10/2004 7:43:40 PM PST
by
Lorianne
To: Lorianne
How about Great Spirit ?
Great Spirit work for you ?
To: Lorianne
"Still crazy, after all these years, OH, still crazy, after all these years..."
To: Lorianne
God is nothing if not patient.
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posted on
12/10/2004 7:49:02 PM PST
by
dsc
To: jennyp
"It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism."Don't know if this warrants summoning the Crevo crowd, but pinging all the same...
To: Lorianne
If you're preparing for death, you becoming more religious. In one's old age, its harder to remain an atheist.
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posted on
12/10/2004 7:49:31 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Lorianne
This has been posted from different sources, but I keep wondering if Antony Flew has ever considered the possiblity that his god might not believe in him?
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posted on
12/10/2004 7:49:45 PM PST
by
xJones
To: Lurking2Long
Flew argues that the investigation of DNA "has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce [life], that intelligence must have been involved."
Uh hu, How about entire world? I guess that's not complex enough for this guy
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posted on
12/10/2004 7:50:01 PM PST
by
LauraleeBraswell
(Support our troops.........)
To: Lorianne
"My whole life has been guided by the principle of Plato's Socrates: follow the evidence, wherever it leads." Aristotle need not apply. A=A. Sheesh. What a maroon!
/john
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posted on
12/10/2004 7:51:33 PM PST
by
JRandomFreeper
(D@mit! I'm just a cook. Don't make me come over there and prove it!)
To: Lorianne
Antony Flew, 81, now believes scientific evidence supports the theory that some sort of intelligence created the universe. Senility happens.
SO9
To: Lorianne
Didn't even know that God was lost :-)
To: goldstategop
I'm reminded of something our pastor taught us during bible study for confirmation. You are closest to God just after birth and just before death. It's all the time in the middle that gets us in trouble.
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posted on
12/10/2004 7:59:16 PM PST
by
ProudVet77
(Beer - It's not just for breakfast anymore.)
To: Lorianne
In the interest of full disclosure; I am speaking as an atheist.
First: the man is 81 and looking right down the barrel of finite mortality. No one can blame him from trying to hedge.
Second: if this reality is all part of a completely thought out plan, then the malevolent nature of the mind that came up this is jaw droppingly frightening.
In certain christian mythos heaven is the "beatific vision" the permission to look upon the face of god for all eternity. Maybe it's just me, but if a supreme being needs that kind of fawning from its' flawed finite creations there's a serious ego issue at play.
And if I'm wrong and when I buy the farm I don't get to look upon the face of god, I'm ok with that. Because this is a very, very, mean (in every sense of the word) supreme being.
As I see it hell must have a far more interesting group of people.
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:04:21 PM PST
by
fourthrider
(fourthrider...Proud Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy)
To: Lorianne
Ooohh ooooh,,,,, knock knock knockin' on heavens door......
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:05:16 PM PST
by
Yaco
("split up and charge both ways !!" NB Forrest)
To: Lorianne
How about this for Mr Flew.
Since in physics on a micro level there is the concept of collapsing a wave form by observation. Why could God not have observed the universe into existance and holds it there by his attention.
It is in keeping with scripture also. His eye is on the sparrow after all. Would require that he knows and monitors all.
God's attention wavers, universe ends.
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:06:45 PM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
(Free the Fallujah one)
To: Servant of the 9
Antony Flew, 81, now believes
Yeah, we all start to believe when we get older and closer to meeting our Maker.
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:07:27 PM PST
by
oldbrowser
(You lost the election.....................Get over it.)
To: Lorianne
"I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam because both are depicted as omnipotent Oriental despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins."
Then I guess he's a Unitarian.
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:08:09 PM PST
by
SBprone
To: goldstategop
"If you're preparing for death, you become more religious.."
Similiar to the 'no atheists in foxholes' idea? Although I said that once to a former Marine (WWII), and he said, "OH, but there are! I was next to two of them!"
To: Lorianne
Too Late for the Ole heathen
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:21:05 PM PST
by
Fast1
To: fourthrider
Review Pascal's argument, and write a (yet another) refutation.
I was agnostic (knowing nothing) until truth was revealed.
Kant could't. Nitczhe is dead. Aristotle was correct.
At the very least, don't hide behind a biased world-view of God. God does not need human worship. He exists.
As a final straw, you might try reading the Bible. Actually reading it, instead of relying on reviews presented by leftist professors.
Keep an open mind, but don't let your brains fall out.
/john
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:23:44 PM PST
by
JRandomFreeper
(D@mit! I'm just a cook. Don't make me come over there and prove it!)
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