In response to Geri Jensen’s July 24 letter. Your letter is supposedly in response to my July 17 letter. However, it seems to lack a response to the questions in my last paragraph—unless it is that you are an “Atheistic Authority.”
Okay, since you are an authority, please indicate which sentences in my letter are “poignant and emotional”?
Your argument that “there is no expectation to prove a negative i.e. that which doesn’t exist” really amounts to this: A thing has not been,
because it cannot be: and it cannot be,
because so far as I know, it is not, and
has not been. Edershiem.
Thiskind of circular logic is fun and games, not serious consideration of different viewpoints and possibilities. Please provide a well-reasoned defense of your statement. Until you do, people can only consider your letters religious atheistic dogma.
And why, since you place great faith in stories that there are no gods; stories passed down since the dawn of time, are you any different than Christians? Your positions are evidence of great faith by you, yet faith is a concept you seem to hold as one of the many things wrong with Christians.
You seem either unable or unwilling to distinguish between fables, myths and legends, which are never first-hand accounts and the eyewitness accounts of events seldom seen by mankind. If an event does not pass your criteria, then the witness was either confused or an outright liar.
Without evidence or proof, you call all 66 writers of the Bible liars. Neither you nor I were there on the mountain when God talked to Moses and gave him the Ten Commandments. We either believe his written account or we don’t, and the word believe necessarily implies faith – which is something you apparently have, but do not believe in. Maybe in atheistic theology faith does not exist?
Chuck Flickinger
Hovland
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