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- From: onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa,soc.culture.jewish,alt.atheism,alt.slack
- Subject: Re: Re^2: Atheism and Intelligence
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.183324.7920@hsr.no>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 18:33:24 GMT
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- >So anyway, answer me this: does human spirituality, in any of its
- >forms, necessarily require a belief in [a] god[ess, s, esses]? Or
- >may one be 'spiritual' without any more than a recognition that
- >one is human, and thus [perhaps] one enjoys certain rituals for
- >themselves, and for the human contact they involve?
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- No not at all. Look at chatholic countries (France, Italy). Most people are
- atheists but still strongly adhere to the religious traditions of chatholisism.
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