Posted by anthonyberet on 12/30/06 00:36

Theophilus wrote:
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>> Sorry, your own #2 rules out atheism as a religion. The whole higher
>> power
>> thing. BTW, higher than what?
>
> Higher than the moral nothingness dictated by a material universe. Atheists
> use morality as if it were real and absolute in some sense; they have no
> empirical evidence that there is any basis to it.
>
> An honest atheist would admit such and regard his own life as being "worth"
> as much as any lump of coal or granite. This is the delusion that they live
> under, the idea that they have some absolute worth, when their belief system
> dictates that they have none.
>
>
I think you make a mistake in generalising about atheists.
- We neither have agreed rules of morality or measures of 'worth'.
My opinion on these matters could not be taken to represent all atheists.

Might I ask what are your beliefs about the cosmos? - Is there an
intelligent design to it? Is any designer petitionable in any way?

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