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Atheists & Agnostics

FiveGoodMen

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6. After giving it some thought, I can see where this will fail to move a believer

Reply to Garydog (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 6, 2017, 02:50 PM

Feb 2017

Many Christians already believe that their holy book was essentially dictated by god to the various humans that wrote the words down.

They will claim that their god will just do the same thing again.

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