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- From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
- Subject: Re: Atheism and Intelligence
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:17:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.161717.12506@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- References: <o7H2VB2w165w@iowegia.uucp> <1992Dec26.092545.16601@eng.umd.edu> <Bzy77z.B6r@world.std.com>
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- In article <Bzy77z.B6r@world.std.com> kkirksey@world.std.com (Ken B Kirksey) writes:
- >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 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.
- >
- >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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- You might want to post explicitly what you appear to find
- contradictory in his post and how you interpret their writings.
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- GMS
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