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- From: sramming@athena.mit.edu (Scott '~ibo' Ramming)
- Subject: Re: help please, when did Isaac Asimov die?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.033005.17049@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Crackpot Religious Authority
- References: <1992Jul22.132513.29828@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> <1992Jul22.191303.20390@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <1992Jul22.201814.1938@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 03:30:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.201814.1938@linus.mitre.org> jon@cyclone.MITRE.org (J. E. Shum) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Jul22.191303.20390@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >> jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath) writes:
- >> : >>
- >> : >>NOT Isaac! He's up there raising H*** with someone!
- >> : >>
- >> : >
- >> : > Ah, a-hem, that would be *down* there.
- >> :
- >> : But do atheists _go_ anywhere when they die?
- >>
- >> I would not say that he was an atheist. More correctly, he just did not
- >> accept any "Divine text" as literal truth.
- >
- >However, in his auto-biography, he did refer to himself as a "jewish
- >atheist."
-
- So? Jewishness refers to a racial/ethnic group almost as much as
- it does to a religion (which might be differentiated as ``Judaism'').
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- ~ibo
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- more pedantic than usual, which is quite scary
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