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		<title>By: deadchurchface</title>
		<link>http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/07/03/when-many-people-suffer-from-a-delusion/#comment-68335</link>
		<dc:creator>deadchurchface</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thats actually a Nietzsche quote, although slightly different.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thats actually a Nietzsche quote, although slightly different.</p>
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		<title>By: Shayne</title>
		<link>http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/07/03/when-many-people-suffer-from-a-delusion/#comment-68226</link>
		<dc:creator>Shayne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tell that to the 26,000 children who die everyday of starvation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tell that to the 26,000 children who die everyday of starvation.</p>
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		<title>By: A Postrophe</title>
		<link>http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/07/03/when-many-people-suffer-from-a-delusion/#comment-55448</link>
		<dc:creator>A Postrophe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think you (both) mean &quot;In its essence&quot;, not &quot;In it&#039;s essence&quot; - you&#039;re saying &quot;in it is essence&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think you (both) mean &#8220;In its essence&#8221;, not &#8220;In it&#8217;s essence&#8221; &#8211; you&#8217;re saying &#8220;in it is essence&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Clay</title>
		<link>http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/07/03/when-many-people-suffer-from-a-delusion/#comment-53904</link>
		<dc:creator>Clay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now john C., are you playing a character, or are you just wallowing in ignorance? Also, what is your story? I am sure you have one, yet I can tell you that it is no different than some other story I have heard before. Not to say all of them are the same, but that many copy one or another. I believe in your right to believe what you want, but when you make comments trying to open people&#039;s minds to religion on a decidedly atheistic website, it brings to question why? You are only opening yourself to criticism while trying to prove to others your &quot;godly&quot; nature by putting on an enlightened act. Right now, more than religion, you should put yourself under a lens of scrutiny.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now john C., are you playing a character, or are you just wallowing in ignorance? Also, what is your story? I am sure you have one, yet I can tell you that it is no different than some other story I have heard before. Not to say all of them are the same, but that many copy one or another. I believe in your right to believe what you want, but when you make comments trying to open people&#8217;s minds to religion on a decidedly atheistic website, it brings to question why? You are only opening yourself to criticism while trying to prove to others your &#8220;godly&#8221; nature by putting on an enlightened act. Right now, more than religion, you should put yourself under a lens of scrutiny.</p>
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		<title>By: John C</title>
		<link>http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/07/03/when-many-people-suffer-from-a-delusion/#comment-51491</link>
		<dc:creator>John C</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is more than meets they eye Lee, so much more my friend.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is more than meets they eye Lee, so much more my friend.</p>
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		<title>By: Lee K-U</title>
		<link>http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/07/03/when-many-people-suffer-from-a-delusion/#comment-51489</link>
		<dc:creator>Lee K-U</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Uh, John C, way back there you offered a reason why god didn&#039;t answer Agent C&#039;s questions. 

have you ever considered that maybe his questions were not answered because:

A. Telepathy (aka praying) is without a doubt impossible. 
B. Even if telepathy worked, it would have to be carried out between two or more living objects
C. There is no god, therefore making an impossible form of communication between a human and the aforementioned supernatural being even more impossible than it already is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Uh, John C, way back there you offered a reason why god didn&#8217;t answer Agent C&#8217;s questions. </p>
<p>have you ever considered that maybe his questions were not answered because:</p>
<p>A. Telepathy (aka praying) is without a doubt impossible.<br />
B. Even if telepathy worked, it would have to be carried out between two or more living objects<br />
C. There is no god, therefore making an impossible form of communication between a human and the aforementioned supernatural being even more impossible than it already is.</p>
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		<title>By: Panther</title>
		<link>http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/07/03/when-many-people-suffer-from-a-delusion/#comment-49879</link>
		<dc:creator>Panther</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dr Deak, you&#039;re spilling arguments that consist of mere air. Please make better metaphores in the future, or make better arguments. You&#039;re reasoning was flawed, just admit it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dr Deak, you&#8217;re spilling arguments that consist of mere air. Please make better metaphores in the future, or make better arguments. You&#8217;re reasoning was flawed, just admit it.</p>
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		<title>By: Dr. Deak</title>
		<link>http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/07/03/when-many-people-suffer-from-a-delusion/#comment-49265</link>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Deak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You got it, now go away you irritating person. Never go to a gun fight with a butter knife.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You got it, now go away you irritating person. Never go to a gun fight with a butter knife.</p>
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		<title>By: Panther</title>
		<link>http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/07/03/when-many-people-suffer-from-a-delusion/#comment-49257</link>
		<dc:creator>Panther</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I didn&#039;t quite get that. Could you paraphrase it a bit?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#8217;t quite get that. Could you paraphrase it a bit?</p>
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		<title>By: Dr. Deak</title>
		<link>http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/07/03/when-many-people-suffer-from-a-delusion/#comment-49177</link>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Deak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wouldst appear P that you said that.
Look under:
Panther
June 23, 2009 at 7:03 pm 
See you silly wabbit.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wouldst appear P that you said that.<br />
Look under:<br />
Panther<br />
June 23, 2009 at 7:03 pm<br />
See you silly wabbit.</p>
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		<title>By: Panther</title>
		<link>http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/07/03/when-many-people-suffer-from-a-delusion/#comment-49174</link>
		<dc:creator>Panther</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So, what you&#039;re saying Dr. Deak, is that anyone who picks up a knife and starts slashing at people for no good reason, is intelligent? A big flaw in that statement, but I understand your reasoning.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, what you&#8217;re saying Dr. Deak, is that anyone who picks up a knife and starts slashing at people for no good reason, is intelligent? A big flaw in that statement, but I understand your reasoning.</p>
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		<title>By: Panther</title>
		<link>http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/07/03/when-many-people-suffer-from-a-delusion/#comment-48582</link>
		<dc:creator>Panther</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s intentions are good, bringing morals to the people. But how they do it, that&#039;s another thing... Heaven and hell were created to force people to listen to their morals and nowadays, religious leaders only care about their own. Religion has become perverted. Religion is not believing, it&#039;s learning morals.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s intentions are good, bringing morals to the people. But how they do it, that&#8217;s another thing&#8230; Heaven and hell were created to force people to listen to their morals and nowadays, religious leaders only care about their own. Religion has become perverted. Religion is not believing, it&#8217;s learning morals.</p>
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		<title>By: Joe Roe</title>
		<link>http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/07/03/when-many-people-suffer-from-a-delusion/#comment-48550</link>
		<dc:creator>Joe Roe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I see a lot of passion filled words that dance around the same circles again and again. I think any person has every right to believe in Christ and the Lord (according to scriptural references) but it is nice to take religion in context and not as an empirical lens with which to view one&#039;s character. I believe it to be a fallacy of both reason and logic to blindly believe in a life-sculpting (and creating) force and attribute any existence whatsoever to stories handed down through oral tradition over hundreds of years. I do not intend to try to disprove the existence of God, but I do intend to offer my belief in exchange for scientifically refutable and replicable information concerning the existence of God. But full proof would  be the negation of faith, now wouldn&#039;t it? I am supposed to believe, without evidence, as the apostle Timothy was. He asked to see and feel Jesus&#039; wounds as to prove his rising which prompts Jesus to say &quot;...blessed are those who believe without seeing me&quot; (John 20:29 I believe)

The point I am trying to make is that I cannot believe in God, lest the ones offered by today&#039;s religions. Was Jesus more humble than Buddha? More wise than Confucius? Faster than Mercury? A better chariot driver than Helios? Or was he a better drinker than Dionysus, or maybe he mastered flame better than Loki.

I will believe in results that are replicable in monitored settings and scientifically refutable theories that have been tested to solidarity and back.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I see a lot of passion filled words that dance around the same circles again and again. I think any person has every right to believe in Christ and the Lord (according to scriptural references) but it is nice to take religion in context and not as an empirical lens with which to view one&#8217;s character. I believe it to be a fallacy of both reason and logic to blindly believe in a life-sculpting (and creating) force and attribute any existence whatsoever to stories handed down through oral tradition over hundreds of years. I do not intend to try to disprove the existence of God, but I do intend to offer my belief in exchange for scientifically refutable and replicable information concerning the existence of God. But full proof would  be the negation of faith, now wouldn&#8217;t it? I am supposed to believe, without evidence, as the apostle Timothy was. He asked to see and feel Jesus&#8217; wounds as to prove his rising which prompts Jesus to say &#8220;&#8230;blessed are those who believe without seeing me&#8221; (John 20:29 I believe)</p>
<p>The point I am trying to make is that I cannot believe in God, lest the ones offered by today&#8217;s religions. Was Jesus more humble than Buddha? More wise than Confucius? Faster than Mercury? A better chariot driver than Helios? Or was he a better drinker than Dionysus, or maybe he mastered flame better than Loki.</p>
<p>I will believe in results that are replicable in monitored settings and scientifically refutable theories that have been tested to solidarity and back.</p>
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		<title>By: John C</title>
		<link>http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/07/03/when-many-people-suffer-from-a-delusion/#comment-48523</link>
		<dc:creator>John C</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You hate me without a cause Sunny.</description>
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		<title>By: Sunny Day</title>
		<link>http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/07/03/when-many-people-suffer-from-a-delusion/#comment-48516</link>
		<dc:creator>Sunny Day</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are a contemptible bigoted sack of air-headed filth.</description>
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