Religious writers and audiences

Jeff Wilson · 07 Jun 2010, 13:10 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:10:04 -0500
Subject: (urth) Religious writers and audiences
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On 6/7/2010 8:01 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <brunians at brunians.org>
>
>> 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?

Dude - we've got to quit feeding the energy creature or it will never stop.

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