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Old 11-17-2005, 09:42 AM
chezlaw chezlaw is offline
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Default Re: Non Believers Predominate Heaven? Just Maybe.

wanted to edit but 2+2 went funny on me and now its too late.

It is the second definition that I mean by skeptical but in this thread I am not simply talikng about withholding judgement.

Its not like a unicorn which I could withhold judgement about but where I know what unicorn means - a unicorn is a horse with a horn and I understand the concepts of horse and animal with horn.

'god' is nothing like that. 'god' is the answer given to some questions like 'why am I here?' or 'what caused the universe' but I don't understand anything about the answers by sticking the word 'god' in.

So any idea of 'god' is a product of the mind and independent of anything that is being understood. A skeptical mind (this is what I mean by skeptical) doesn't form beliefs about whether such ideas are true or false.

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