why I'm an atheist...

[madnak]

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Of all the quotations you cited, only the first has any value aside from rhetoric. And even the first is surely used primarily as rhetoric, as you have used it in this case.

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The rhetoric can stimulate thought, but yeah. Style over substance is what motivates people. Most of these figures have written profound essays about the subject (and not always from an atheist perspective), but most people just roll their eyes at profound essays.

Anyhow, we're atheists. We get to indulge [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]