It's not out here yet, and not available as eyepatch-wear either.
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From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] What are the *benefits* of believing in God?
Where's your review of "Transcendence"? :-D
On 04/18/2014 02:44 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote:
>Sometimes I look at the way that believers react to the word "atheist" --
>spitting it out as if it were an epithet -- and find it a curious reaction. I
>mean, with the exception of a vocal few who make their livings by poking
>theists just to watch them react, I don't see most everyday atheists (and I
>know quite a few, living where I live) reacting to believers in the same
>fashion. Unless the believers are trying to sell the atheists their beliefs,
>that is. Then all bets are off and the atheists can react to the proselytizing
>believers however they wish.
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>Anyway, it's like the believers perceive the
atheists as a *threat*, and as if by believing
what they do and <spit> daring to say it
aloud or write it somewhere they are trying to
*take* something from them.
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>I don't get this. *What*, after all, could an
atheist "take" from a believer in God? They've got
all they need by believing that there is
someone/something IN CHARGE, and that there is a
PLAN for all of this, right? So why are they so
antagonistic towards a few vocal atheists speaking
their minds and suggesting that no one is in
charge and that there is no plan?
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>To help me understand this, I'm asking the
believers in God here to speak up and tell me what
the BENEFITS of such a belief are. Such that you
would miss them and feel something had been taken
from you if you no longer believed?
>
>What would such BENEFITS be?
>
>Surely you can name a few.
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