Re: Greg Burch discusses religion

From: Russell Blackford (rblackford@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 01:28:53 MDT


John M Grigg

>
> Greg Burch shared:
> The real killer of my faith was that I could not solve the problem of
>evil,
> despite my best endeavours - which I naturally expected to be superior
>to
> those of any previous philosophical or theological thinkers <g>.
> (end)

Actually, FWIW, that was me, not Greg.

<snip>
> The story of being an atheist and also a Evangelical student group
>leader is quite something!

Thankfully, there was only a very brief overlap or I would have been forced
to cause a huge fuss by resigning dramatically or something.

I do, however, think the best atheists are those who have thought through
the arguments from the "other side".

Cheers

Russell

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