Harry Potter and God

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Nightbreed" <md at ...> wrote:
 
md:
> > I could of course argue that Atheist are simply people who are still
> searching for the truth and only await the proper moment to embrace God to
> realize that they are wrong and that they are only skeptical because they
> have not yet seen the way.
 
Carol:
 
> Wouldn't that definition be more applicable to agnostics than to atheists?

md: 
> I was arguing from the pov of the Christian who refuses to believe that
> anyone could truly not believe in god but instead insist that we all believe
> and just need to accept that belief, or moreover, the idea that the arguing
> Christian is really saying there's no such thing as atheist, but that we are
> either believers, heretics or agnostics.

Geoff:
I'm ouzzled by what you mean by "the arguing Christian".

As regards belief, I recently commented that I acknowledged the faith 
of the atheist, who unlike me, believes fervently that there is no God.