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Atheists & Agnostics

nil desperandum

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4. Indeed

Reply to DetlefK (Reply #2)

Tue May 31, 2016, 02:41 PM

May 2016

you are correct, the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference and apathy.

That is what many christians don't understand about non-believers, they just don't care as you point out they become indifferent to their previous faith which means their previous faith is no longer of any consequence.

Liberating for the non-believers and unsettling for the faithful.

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