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- From: Geoff@equinox.gen.nz (Geoff Mccaughan)
- Subject: Re: Atheism and Intelligence
- Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
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- Date: 27 Dec 92 18:01:13 +1200
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- Steve J. Quest (quest@iowegia.uucp) wrote:
- >radams@BNR.CA (Rodney Adams) writes:
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- > I stand on my own in this world, but do require the
- >support of other fellow humans- not deities. I am an atheist, and
- >I am in a great minority.
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- There do exist places in the world where you might not be in such a
- minority. For example the incidence of organised religion is much lower in
- Europe and Australasia than in America, and is very much in retreat in these
- places.
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