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echo: skeptic
to: MIKE ROSS
from: Fredric Rice
date: 2002-12-19 20:28:32
subject: Everyone is _born_ an atheist

SK> Atheism is NOT, nor will it EVER BE, a religion.

mr> Crap! Absence of a deity CAN BE a religion.

Not in the primary, secondary, or even tertiary definition of the
word, no.  Not in the way Christofascists want to pretend atheism
is some how a religion.  At best "A cause, a principle, or an
activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion" would meet
the requirements for individual atheists but it's rather rare.

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~*~  What are the dictates of my god ? - Paul Churchill
     What ever your masters say they are. - Fredric L. Rice

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