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Old 11-17-2008, 04:17 PM  
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Originally Posted by GatorB View Post
I don't have proof Santa doesn't exist. You can't really prove a negative. I am 100% certain that Santa is not real and you are 100% certain too, but with God if you don't have proof then you somehow are required to leave open the possibility. Um..no.
The discussion isn't as simple and as that.

You see, the issue with Atheists and denouncing a higher power, is that Atheists get their definitions of God from the Christians. This is where the 'magic man in the sky' stuff comes into the discussion. So forget the Christian idea of God and just look at the very basic definition of what 'God' is.

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God is most often conceived of as the supernatural creator and overseer of the universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God
Let's not use the word 'God', and let's pretend that 'God' probably isn't so supernatural after all. Then interchange the idea 'God' with a sort of unified energy that holds the Universe together and makes things happen and also destroys those things. What if gravity, or electricity is the almighty energy that creates and destroys and holds the Universe together?

I don't know, you don't know - which is essentially definition of Agnosticism.
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