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- From: kkirksey@world.std.com (Ken B Kirksey)
- Subject: Re: Atheism and Intelligence
- Message-ID: <Bzy77z.B6r@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec09.200845.26187@bnr.ca> <o7H2VB2w165w@iowegia.uucp> <1992Dec26.092545.16601@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 02:35:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec26.092545.16601@eng.umd.edu> tedwards@eng.umd.edu (Thomas Grant Edwards) writes:
- >In article <o7H2VB2w165w@iowegia.uucp> quest@iowegia.uucp (Steve J. Quest) writes:
- >> 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.
- >
- >I'd like to add that there is nothing wrong with developing
- >a sense of spirituality while remaining an atheist. I enjoy
- >Wiccan circles, catholic masses, technopagan rituals, etc.
- >I know the spirituality I experience is metaphorical and
- >not part of the reality which science reveals.
- >
- >I used to be a very "violent atheist," being totally
- >unaccepting of any kind of spirituality as "stupid."
- >I found that this stance really began to dehumanize me.
- >
- >I realize now that like the illusion of love, the illusion of
- >spirituality is a key part of our humanity, and I revel in it,
- >but continue to keep touch with reality.
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- If by "reality" you mean the world as revealed by our senses and studied
- by science you might want to go back and read Plato and Spinoza.
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-
- Ken
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