# If there is a God - Meh.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-is-a-god-meh/286666>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 26, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-is-a-god-meh/286666 "2005-01-26T00:22:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![EvanS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@EvanS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvanS)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-is-a-god-meh/286666/61 "2005-02-01T20:59:31Z")

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> [@Hoodoo Ulove](#):
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> If that’s all you believe in you look like a goddamn atheist to me.

Now now, this is Great Debates, not the BBQ pit, please don’t call me names…

Now then, for clarification:

[ol]  
[li]I can honestly debate that God may consist of the All, and that can consist of a definitionof God.[/li][li]Belief in God is another issue altogether, not requiring definitions.[/li][li]Isn’t a “goddamn athiest” a kind of oxymoron?[/li][li]What’s wrong with being an athiest, if I indeed was one?[/li][li]For the record, I believe in my experience only, and then only as my experience. For everything else I keep an open mind.[/li][/ol]

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**Author:** ![Hoodoo\_Ulove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58956e/32.png) [@Hoodoo\_Ulove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoodoo_Ulove)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-is-a-god-meh/286666/62 "2005-02-01T22:58:57Z")

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> [@EvanS](#):
>
> Now now, this is Great Debates, not the BBQ pit, please don’t call me names…
> 
> Now then, for clarification:
> 
> [ol]  
> [li]I can honestly debate that God may consist of the All, and that can consist of a definitionof God.[/li][li]Belief in God is another issue altogether, not requiring definitions.[/li][li]Isn’t a “goddamn athiest” a kind of oxymoron?[/li][li]What’s wrong with being an athiest, if I indeed was one?[/li][li]For the record, I believe in my experience only, and then only as my experience. For everything else I keep an open mind.[/li][/ol]

1. & 4. Calling you a “goddamn atheist” was a joke. I don’t consider it an insult.

2. Definitions are not of things, but of words. Thus, I agree that saying the definition of the word “God” is “the All” is a meaningful statement. It says nothing about anything but language, though.

3. I am at a loss as to how the question of belief in God can be addressed without definitions.

4. You’re drifting dangerously toward sollipsism here. Please be careful!

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**Author:** ![Hoodoo\_Ulove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58956e/32.png) [@Hoodoo\_Ulove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoodoo_Ulove)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-is-a-god-meh/286666/63 "2005-02-02T19:45:30Z")

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And no, “goddamn atheist” is not an oxymoron. Some might think it redundant, though.

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