Satan Doesn't Want You
To See The Truth
Larry Roberts
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From: "Larry Roberts"
To: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
Sent: January 02, 2002 2:39 AM
Subject: How Could Intelligent, Educated People Believe This
Very interesting thought. I really liked reading James A's answer. I believe he is on the right track. He believes God is a cognative illusion, and suggests theists should engage their intelligence to reveal this illusion. I am a believer, and I agree that intelligence should be used to prove the existence or non-existence of God. I believe atheists should engage their intelligence to disprove the "illusion". Try reading the Bible. Then pick it apart piece by piece. Keep an open mind; don't be blinded by your paradigms, but be open to what the truth is. Once you have read the Bible, studied it, and proven it to be wrong, you can then say that God doesn't exist. If you don't do this, then atheism is just another unfounded belief system; a cognative illusion. You see, the Bible was written by many men over many years. Prophecies were made and fulfilled. The Bible can be proven to be true. "The life of the flesh is in the blood" was in the Bible when people were bleeding each other to death when they were ill, for instance. The water cycle was described before weathermen understood it. The Bible alsso says "the fool hath said in his heart, there is no God". That statement alone should challenge any atheist to disprove once and for all that there is no God. The interesting thing is, everyone that I know of who has ever taken on this challenge has determined that there is a God. Are you willing to take on this challenge, and prove something, or are you satisfied to hold on to a personal belief system, that if wrong, has devastating consequences? You see, Satan doesn't want you to see the truth. He has blinded your eyes so that you can't see it. He has provided you with your illusion that God doesn't exist. You are being fooled and can't even see it. God is very real. Please accept this challenge.
Larry R.
From: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
To: "Larry Roberts"
Subject: Re: How Could Intelligent, Educated People Believe This
Date: January 02, 2002 7:54 AM
I have read the Bible as you said, and am convinced that it is at best an elaborate series of hoaxes -- but sometimes I feel that even that is to give it too much credit.
If you think it is true, the burden is yours to make a convincing case that it is. Anybody can say, "It's true! It's true!" I'm tired of that being the only thing that a Christian says on this forum when he writes.
I am also tired of hearing the slander, "the fool hath said in his heart, there is no God." For you to write that falsehood alone is sufficient to exclude you from being taken seriously by us.
Cliff Walker
Positive Atheism Magazine
Six years of service to
people with no reason to believe
From: "Larry Roberts"
To: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
Sent: January 02, 2002 2:42 AM
Subject: How Could Intelligent, Educated People Believe This
As a child, if you were told the stove was hot, and you didn't believe, it didn't make the stove less hot, and you still got burned if you touched it. Just because you believe there is no God, doesn't make it so.
From: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
To: "Larry Roberts"
Subject: Re: How Could Intelligent, Educated People Believe This
Date: January 02, 2002 8:00 AM
Who said that I believe there is no god? Please provide the URL or give the page and date of the magazine where I said this. You are not giving yourself a very good start by telling so many lies in your first two letters.
Nevertheless, just because someone believes there is no god does not make it false, either.
Just because the statement "a god exists" is unfalsifiable does not mean it is true or that it is not false, it only means that it is unfalsifiable. I still have no more business believing an unfalsifiable claim than I do believing a false one, because an unfalsifiable claim is likewise unverifiable. Thus, if it is unverifiable, I have no business telling people that it's true.
Cliff Walker
Positive Atheism Magazine
Six years of service to
people with no reason to believe
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