[Tfug] Apple Mac OS X: tool of Godless Darwinists and Communist / TROLL ALERT?

[bpoag at comcast.net]

One more for Bex, 

>On a truly serious note, why do you think people become 
>"zealots"? (this is not a rhetorical question) If you 
>*truly* "believe" (whatever you happen to believe), then 
>why care about what others "believe"? (let's please avoid 
>the cop-out replies...) 

This also applies to athiesm, oddly enough. They're just zealots of a different religion. I should know, I used to be one. (An athiest, that is..not a zealot.)..I was actually raised in an athiest home. I only became a Christian later in life, in my early 30's. Anyway, back to the meat: 

If I were a true athiest, why the hell would I care if "In God We Trust" is printed on my money? It could just as easilly say "All Hail Cthulu". I could care less what it says, since I don't believe in either one. As an athiest, to me, they are both powerless statements. 

In my experience, the more noise an athiest makes, the more reluctant they are to truly examine their own beliefs. It's just too uncomfortable for them to drill down. Any intro-level philosophy course is going to teach you that a belief that God exists is no more rationally or logically justifyable than a belief that God *doesn't* exist. If you're goal is to be purely rational about it, the only valid stance is agnosticism---The agnostic knows enough to know that he *can't* know. 

Cheers, 
Bowie 

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