Atheism isn’t an Absence in belief

On 9/1/2010 6:37 PM, Free Lunch wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:34:24 -0400, Beam Me Up Scotty
> @&*$?%Blackhole.NebulaX.com> wrote in alt.atheism:
>
>> On 9/1/2010 6:23 PM, Free Lunch wrote:
>>> On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:49:38 -0400, Beam Me Up Scotty
>>> @&*$?%Blackhole.NebulaX.com> wrote in alt.atheism:
>>>
>>>> On 9/1/2010 2:17 AM, Scout wrote:
>>>>> Jimbo wrote:
>>>>>> On Aug 31, 6:36 pm, DanielSan wrote:
>>>>>>> On 8/31/2010 3:30 PM, Scout wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>> Jimbo wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Aug 30, 11:35 pm, “Scout”
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Free Lunch wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:10:21 -0400, “Scout”
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote in alt.atheism:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> “Scout” wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>>>> news:i5ha8r$6kf$1 @&*$?%news.eternal-september.org:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Colanth wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:56:45 -0400, “Scout”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> “Mitchell Holman” wrote in message
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> news:Xns9DE3F1E1E595Bnomailcomcastnet @&*$?%216.196.121.131…
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Who own courthouses – the judges that work
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> there for a short period of time, or the public
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that built them and use them?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Doesn’t matter.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Does matter – Alabama judges are employees – they’re not
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> allowed to decorate courtrooms. (Nothing about religion
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> there, unless your religion is decorating your workspace.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ok, back that up and I will agree he acted wrongly.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Why did Moore have this thing installed in the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> dead of night?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Probably because it was big, it was in a common area, and that
>>>>>>>>>>>> is normally when such things are done.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> That you read more into it is….telling.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Everyone knew that he was violating the Constitution. That’s why
>>>>>>>>>>> he got canned.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Na, at worst he was violating policy,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The courts ruled that the edifice was a violation of the
>>>>>>>>> Constitution.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So “free expression” is no longer part of the 1st Amendment?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No, it’s still part of the 1st Amendment. The government can’t do it,
>>>>>>> though.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Exactly.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wasn’t aware the government practices a religion. Every complaint I’ve
>>>>> heard of are about individuals…..
>>>>
>>>> The federal government tries to teach that there is NO God.
>>>
>>> More lies.
>>>
>>>> Neutral is
>>>> to do NOTHING, when they start suppressing belief in God they are
>>>> proactively engaging in the DEBATE.
>>>
>>> The Federal Government has never started to suppress belief in any gods.
>>> Why are theists so dishonest? Where in their scriptures does their god
>>> tell them to lie to us?
>>
>>
>> I’m not a Theist, I don’t have a God….
>
> So you say now. The rest of your posts make that claim hard to believe.

That’s your problem, it’s a belief….

The fact is that I have no god or gods, I have posted plenty of blasphemy.

I don’t have an Atheists belief either. I take the stand that there is
simply not enough information to make a choice based in fact or even
based on common sense. Maybe someday there will be.

Trying Occam’s Razor

[Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor[1]) is the principle that “entities
must not be multiplied beyond necessity” (entia non sunt multiplicanda
praeter necessitatem). The popular interpretation of this principle is
that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. Simplest is
not defined by the time or number of words it takes to express the
theory; “[simplest] is really referring to the theory with the fewest
new assumptions.”]

This still leave us short of answers….