"Brett Robson" <deep_m_m@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>
> >
> > How is atheism any less based on faith and therefore any less
ridiculous?
> >
>
> It's quite cute hearing religious people desperately trying to
> equate atheism with religion by using terms such as faith.

Actually, I agree that the active disbelief in any sort of deity is based on
faith. It must be faith, unless the negative -- no deity exists -- can be
proved. It does not require faith to assume no deity exists as the null
hypothesis, but to *believe* this to be the case requires faith.

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Ryan Ginstrom
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