Salutatio Bob!
09-Apr-98, Bob Sewell wrote to Bob Eyer
          Subject: HOLYSMOKE "ATHEISM"
 BS> In a deposition submitted under oath, Bob Eyer said:
 BE>> And all of my Holysmoke critics maintained that Atheism referred
 BE>> simply to the lack of any belief in the existence of gods.
 BE>> Rice was one of those critics.
 BE>> The Holysmoke theory of atheism, in fact, is the thing which
 BE>> permits them to argue that we are all born atheists.  (Obviously,
 BE>> newborns don't have any beliefs; a fortiori, they don't have any
 BE>> belief in the existence of gods.)
 BS> Then my observations about Rice, et al, are proved correct.  He is
 BS> confused.  What he calls atheism is really agnosticism.  All
 BS> babies are born without knowledge of God, and that is agnosticism,
 BS> not atheism.
"Proved" perhaps, perhaps not - "supported", I'll go with that.
 BE>> This, I believe, is the whole trick to understanding what has
 BE>> been going on over there in Holysmoke.
 BS> And no one here gives a flying f*ck what goes on over in Holypoke.
Kudos!
 Dicere...
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Richard Meic
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