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Atheists & Agnostics

Curmudgeoness

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4. IF!

Reply to progressoid (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 01:20 PM

Jun 2015

"But if the moral argument it presents moves the problem from one that “should” be tackled sometime to one that “must” be tackled now, it will have performed a remarkable act.

"Perhaps one might even call it a miracle."

IF the move is made to it must be tackled now.....waiting, waiting, waiting....

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