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--- Mario Goveia previously wrote:
>
> Thus, if you add up the last two sentences, the only
> conclusion you can reach is that we will all,
> religious and atheists alike, know for sure the
> minute we die. If God does exist, the atheists are
> in for an unpleasant shock of their lives. If God
> does not exist, there will be nothing, just "lights
> out" and we religious will have wasted our time and
> money and emotion, albeit voluntarily.
>
---Santosh Helekar responds:
>
> The following is quite clearly a position adopted by
> an agnostic or a doubter, not by a genuinely
> religious person. A genuinely religious person
> knows with absolute certainty that god exists or
> does not exist, no matter what anybody says. She
> does not claim that she would find out the truth
> only after her death.
>
Mario responds:
>
Santosh,
Your comments about what a genuinely religious
person must believe are out of context and therefore
clearly disingenuous - not to mention additionally
specious and patronizing as an allegation by a
committed atheist of what a truly religious person
needs to believe.
>
My comments above were part of a rhetorical discussion
addressing the claims of atheists like you who claim
to know for sure that God does not exist because you
are more intelligent than those of us who are
religious who are unable to understand scientific
facts.
>
Yet, some rational atheists have admitted that there
is no way to prove conclusively that God does not
exist.
>
My comments were really intended to make honest
atheists think about what they - in the context of
their beliefs - are likely to confront the minute they
die.
>
