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echo: holysmoke
to: ROSS SAUER
from: JOHNJWILSON
date: 2009-03-28 15:16:06
subject: Atheism

-> 
->  RS>> I like how one guy years ago said "Atheism is a religion, like
->  RS>> baldness is having hair."

It ain't a religion...it's merely negative. :-)

In any polemical arena, all participants eventually reach a level of
frustration with their opponents' inability to grasp the subtlety and
beauty of the Truth. The only weapon left in the rhetorical arsenal is
ridicule, particularly the kind usually characterized as name-calling. 

That was th best part of the URL IMO...a wonderful description of FIDONET
:-)
 
->  RS>> http://www.skepdic.com/skeptimedia/skeptimedia37.html
-> 
->  JB> Right from a whackos-are-us website.

-> 
-> Yeah, it's just SOOOOO bad they actually use science and logic, not your
-> fairy tales.
-> 
Science is exploring "The spiritual Brain", Implicate order etc...
Logic: Formal, dynamic, conditional...it's validity varies... --- IMO,
there are mysteries aplenty in religion and science, both strive for the
goal of truth. (Some think they have it in it's entirety...hence MY Church
of Variable Likelihood :-)



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