From: maedhros@yabbs
To: ching@yabbs
Subject: re: da Bible
Date: Sat Feb 12 20:21:17 1994

  The following is meant for Ching in particular, so if you're religious, 
please don't take offense:

  Look here cheesedick (What's a cheesedick, by the way?)!

  Your presumption of why I should adhere to agnosticism is ludicrous.  
What if there is a God and I die.  What am I going to say when I get to 
Heaven?  You think He won't know I'm just a fence-sitting pussy?  Doubt 
it.  By definition, he is omniscient.  Somehow I don't think I'll be very 
welcome.

  At any rate, your reasons for agnosticism are preposterous.  In an 
infinite universe it would indeed be falacious to presume something could 
not exist.  However, by the same pattern of  logic, I could presume that 
the whole cosmos was created from the fecies of the Giant Celstial 
Antelope.  It could be true, by definition, but you don't see me setting 
up a shrine in the bathroom.

  The bottom line is that religion is based on faith.  If you don't have 
any then you have no business being involved in any way with it.  It 
implies that you lack any confidence in your own beliefs.  If you can't 
have faith, at least have a spine.

  I'd rather be friends with a devout Christian, Jew, or even a Satanist 
then with an agnostic.  At least they have confidence and character 
(albeit a somewhat strange character, from my perspective).

  If I die and there is a God then I'll have to say,"Well why the Hell did 
you give me a brain and reasoning and no proof.  Pretty shitty trick."

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