'Sincere' seekers. . .

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---Brian Dean <bridean@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>



> RON

>   I know you believe in God, just like most of your "atheist"

buddies, 

> simply because you are so angry at Him. How can you be so mad at a

guy, 

> and devote so much time combatting Him, if He doesn't exist[?]


BRYCE
     Fair question.  Why WOULD anyone try and combat something that
doesn't exist?  Here are a few answers I can think of off the top of
my head:

  1)  We just can't seem to get away from those %&#*@ Mormon
missionaries.

  2)  There is a vast political movement afoot to return all of
America to the precepts supposedly dictated by this non-existant
being.  Even though we don't believe in this God critter, a lot of
other people do, and consider their beliefs valid enough to force them
upon the unwilling.

  3)  Every time we mention the fact that we don't believe in this God
critter, we are met with either stunned silence, or a random quote
from the Big Book o' Thees n' Thous.  Your refusal to accept that
atheists really DON'T believe in God is proof of how strange and sick
most people consider the idea.

  4)  In spite of the fact that I'm open about my beliefs, my dad
still wants me to donate a tenth of my income to the LDS Church.  I'm
sure others on this list are married to people who insist on forking
hard-earned cash over to a preacher.

  5)  The God critter has decided that I will never see my sisters get
married.  The ceremony is for Mormons only.

     I think every one of these is a valid reason to feel anger, and
in none of these cases is the anger directed at an omnipotent,
omniscient, otherworldly being.

RON
 Take Till 

> for example. Even though he claims not to believ in God, his whole

life 

> and work revolves around Him. Such apostolic zeal must originate with 

> some source. 


BRYCE
     That source being Satan, of course.  Everyone who has given the
Christian faith serious study and then rejected it must be pawns of
the enemy.

RON
 I think God 

> rewards the efforts of sincere seekers, even those of non-Christian 

> religions. 

[snip]

BRYCE
     Oh really?  And on what basis do you believe that God rewards
sincere seekers?  If I claimed that I went through a very real, very
heartbreaking search, before coming to my current beliefs, then on
what basis would you deny the factuality of this statement?

Bryce Anderson
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