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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
I've seen this question before and thought it was too silly to answer. It would be like me asking you If someones personal experience with answered prayer or other miraculous encounter with God was a lie. If you were Cheese you might say "Yes and he's stupid" or something equally profound. But if you aren't a positive atheist you might think that perhaps environmental conditions brought my friend to this experience. You wouldn't doubt his truthfulness but, rather the cause of the experience. Could you say conclusively that my friend never had an experience with God? No but, you might rightly or wrongly believe that the experience was caused by environmental conditions my friend doesn't realize.
I believe your friend because of environmental conditions believes what he believes and is attracted to what he is attracted to. To call him a liar or to say with 100% certainly that he is mistaken would be presumptuous.
I'm not going to do that.
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Now Mr BornAgain...have I EVER called you stupid? Please dont put words where they dont belong.
BTW Im just loving your use of Positive Atheism now....the whole schtick on "environmental conditions" is a fantastic analogy...did you learn that in school? When your kids see two homosexual men holding hands and kissing what do you tell them...or do you immediately cover their eyes so they dont see the abomination? I wonder what you would do if your son came to you in a few years and said...Dad Im Gay.....LOLOL. Id love to take that picture. Somehow I think IF your son was he'dhide it from you forever....hed be afraid to tell you for fear of eternal damnation.