Talk:Atheism and satanic deception

Just out of curiousity, doesn't one kind of preclude the other? I understand the link between satanism and liberalism, but I feel like connecting it with atheism is a stretch. Rejecting god is very different from not believing in god.RaymondP 18:00, 19 May 2010 (EDT)

"He complained in no way of the evil reputation under which he lived, indeed, all over the world, and he assured me that he himself was of all living beings the most interested in the destruction of Superstition, and he avowed to me that he had been afraid, relatively as to his proper power, once only, and that was on the day when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than the rest of the human herd, cry in his pulpit: "My dear brethren, do not ever forget, when you hear the progress of lights praised, that the loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist!" - Charles Baudelaire's short story, The Generous Gambler written in 1864 conservative 22:11, 19 May 2010 (EDT)

Raymond wrote: "Rejecting god is very different from not believing in god." Not necessarily. "Not believing in god" may be active - having heard of god and rejecting god - or it may be passive: Never having heard of god, and therefore not believing in something one has never heard of, is not "rejecting" god. Such persons were called "virtuous pagans" by Dante Alighieri in his "Divine Comedy." PaulBurnett 23:09, 21 May 2010 (EDT)

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse..." —Romans 1:19-20 (NKJV) conservative 03:13, 25 May 2010 (EDT)