Salutatio Fredric!
09-Apr-98, Fredric Rice wrote to Bob Sewell
          Subject: ATHEISM v FIDEISM
  >> In a deposition submitted under oath, Fredric Rice said:
 FR> >>Except that atheism is the lack of belief in all of the gods and
 FR> >>goddesses humanity has created for themselves.  Everyone is born
 FR> >>an atheist and, as you know, everyone is an atheist after
 FR> they're >>dead.
  >> By strict definition, everyone is born agnostic, without knowledge
  >> of God.
 FR> By any definition, everyone is born not believing in gods and
 FR> goddesses. Ergo, everyone is born an atheist.
I'll have to stand with Bob on this one.  Atheism is not agnostism.
Atheism is the "non-acceptance" of any deity(s) existance.  Agnostism is
simply the lack of knowledge of such.
 Dicere...
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Richard Meic
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