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From: chrislee@netcom.com (Christopher A. Lee)
Subject: Re: BABY KILLING JESUS!!!
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In article <3oh7m5$qfo@netnews.upenn.edu> omard@red.seas.upenn.edu (up here I can see for miles) writes:
>
>David McIntire (dmcintir@cais2.cais.com) wrote:
>: In article <D7pLAu.9F4@blaze.trentu.ca>,  <slaunchbury@ivory.trentu.ca> wrote:
>: >In article <3njuhi$67n@condor.ic.net>, pcr@ic.net (phil reed) writes:
>: >>In article <1995Apr24.093005.1@daffy.millersv.edu>, 
>: >>web44583q239@daffy.millersv.edu says...
>: >>>
>: >>>>>: Until someone can prove there is a god, there's nothing to discuss.
>: >>>>>: For something to be created or to exist there must be some space for it 
>: >>>>>: to exist in.
>: >>>
>: >>>Ok, but can you DISPROVE there is a god? Think about it.
>: >>
>: >>No. But we aren't the one making the extraordinary claim. You want us
>: >>to believe in your god, you show us why.
>
>It is not extraordinary considering that his power was evinced for thousands
>of people in ancient times. And the people wrote about it.

Then you should have no trouble producing evidence.

>It is you who are discounting thousands of people's experiences and
>claiming that it cannot exist.

Duh.......

It's just something out of an old book that too many people expect us 
to believe in. 

They're the ones making the claim. Not us.

So let's see some evidence.

Until then we just get on with our own lives.

Hint: atheist simply means not having a god. Note: *any* god. Not just 
your god.

So your evidence must come from *outside* your scriptures. Otherwise it 
is no more valid than evidence for Mohammed and Allah in the Koran, or 
for the Hindu pantheon in the Bhahavad-Gita.

It's not for us to have to disprove it. It's not our god. It's yours. So 
you are the one that must convince us.

All we've seen so far are appeals to emotion and empty threats.
