Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.

['Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]]

On 10/24/2014 1:37 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com 
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Life long atheists cannot commit apostasy for there never is, nor was, 
anything for them to abandon.
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/When a person professes a belief in Buddhas, karma and reincarnation, 
and at the same time, professes to be an atheist - they are probably 
experiencing cognitive dissonance./
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Apostasy (/əˈpɒstəsi/; Greek: ἀποστασία (apostasia), "a defection or 
revolt") is the formal disaffiliation from or abandonment or 
renunciation of a religion by a person. One who commits apostasy (or 
who apostatizes) is known as an apostate.
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/Anyone who claims to be a Buddhist, and at the same time, professes a 
belief in an eternal spirit soul, is an impostor. Everyone knows that 
the Buddha did not teach an eternal spirit soul that survives after 
death to be reborn again. /
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If 'spiritually, people should speak the sweet truth', what should 
they speak non-spiritually? Maybe they should just speak the truth 
instead of lying. Spiritual people divide themselves from the rest of 
mankind, and each other, so presumably they would speak with less 
rancour than the rest of us, except that is not what we observe.
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/Non sequitur. The term "spiritual" has not been defined. And, it has 
already been established by Judy that you lied, but what lie did you 
post? Go figure./