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- Path: sparky!uunet!iadpsa!iowegia!quest
- From: quest@iowegia.uucp (Steve J. Quest)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
- Subject: Re: Atheism and Intelligence
- Message-ID: <PqkiwB3w165w@iowegia.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 16:38:24 CST
- References: <Geoff.69fp@equinox.gen.nz>
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- Organization: Iowegia Public Access Usenet/UUCP, Clive IA USA.
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- Geoff@equinox.gen.nz (Geoff Mccaughan) writes:
-
- > Steve J. Quest (quest@iowegia.uucp) wrote:
- > >radams@BNR.CA (Rodney Adams) 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.
- >
- > 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.
-
- Geoff,
-
- I have thought about emigrating to Australia, as they are
- in the beginnings of an industrial / technical revolution there.
- Of course, I will be treated just like emigrants are treated here-
- and would not like that. This is why I stayed, but I will find
- happiness and I will be with people. I have joined a group called
- the Jaycee's (Junior Chamber of Commerce) which is filled with all
- types of people- the first line of their creed states
- (paraphrased) that Belief in god gives purpose and meaning to
- life. So far I have been able to live with this............sq
-
- (and I have been accepted- or so it would appear.....)
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