> You have the right to choose the memes you wish to define you. I have
>
> the same right. Respect is all I ask. What is it that you want from
> me?
>
> Marie
You have always had the respect you are speaking of, with me anyways.
All I ask is that you acknowledge that your perception of "God" is far
different from the much more common concept of "God" that has been
created by mankind for thousands of years and exists today in
westernized religions. And also, that many of your reasons for believing
are emotionally based reasons that cannot, by their very nature, be
accurate outside of your own mind. As an atheist, I choose not to
believe something based on my feelings about it - no matter how much I
want to. I choose to believe based on the criteria laid out by most
other atheists here because the results have been so compelling. The
same emotional desire that has helped you to heal and improve have been
used by many others to kill and destroy. Reason alone has no comparison
to the evils caused by believers (none that i am aware of anyway)
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