Religious writers and audiences

Gerry Quinn · 07 Jun 2010, 13:01 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 14:01:01 +0100
Subject: (urth) Religious writers and audiences
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> I would like an atheist to explain to me why atheism is not found in 
> nature.
>
> Where is the ancient or traditional society that did not believe in
> something, whether the ghosts of their grandparents, or the spirits of the
> trees, or the fairies, or the planets or the mountains or the ocean or
> angels or gods or God or the Devil or something else.
>
> Is everyone except you and your buddies deluded?

Is everyone who doesn't believe in the fairies deluded?  Or everyone who 
doesn't believe in the mountains?

- Gerry Quinn

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