I missed this in my first reply, sorry.
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Originally Posted by Janey
and again I'll re-iterate: I am not dismissing any atheist. they believe what they do. Intellectual position notwithstanding, they are not accepting any proof that God doesn't exist. They are basing their position on faith. Just as the most august Roman Catholic Church, or the Eastern Orthodox Church does, or Islam, or Judaism base there doctrines on faith.
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There is a difference, though, in the amount of faith required to accept, say, the theory of gravity and the existence of God. Or, to use another poster's example, to accept the existence of Santa Claus. Do you say that people who believe in Santa Claus and those who do not are each using as much faith as the other? What about those who believe in oranges and those who do not?
If I postulate the existence of an invisible pink space unicorn, do you believe in it? Is it equally acceptable to be convinced of its existence as well as not? How do we then distinguish between reality and fantasy? What decision process can we go through to separate the two?
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