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- From: tedwards@wam.umd.edu (technopagan priest)
- Subject: Re: Re^2: Atheism and Intelligence
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 12:20:19 GMT
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- In article <4339@novavax.UUCP> mitch@novavax.UUCP (Mitch Silverman) writes:
- >Hmmm. Speaking as a atheistic, Jewish, ordained SubGenius minister
- >(I try not to let my hobbies interfere with one another), I feel I
- >have to ask: does feeling that a sense of spirituality is useful
- >and enjoyable while also being an atheist require that that
- >selfsame spirituality be be illusory?
-
- I think it depends on how one defines illusory...you could say
- God is illusory, if you believe none exists, but in many
- ways you'd be wrong because certainly God(s) _do_ exist in
- the minds of Billions, and is a very powerful force.
-
- >I've always wondered if perhaps the common interpretation of a
- >NDE is something neurologically or culturally mediated
-
- If we ever have someone die on a PET scanner, I'd like to compare
- "seeing the bright, white light" to about the time there begins
- to be some cell death in visual cortex...
-
- >prayers influencing any sort of deity. And I also find the
- >Church of the SubGenius very fulfilling and useful (in a First
- >Amendment sense, as well as in a more directly spiritual sense.)
- >Yet in my life as a whole, I try to do what I feel is right,
- >following Rabbi Hillel's dictate that the whole of Torah is to
- >"Do not unto others that which you find harmful. All the rest is
- >commentary.
-
- Would you say Judaism is more "slack" than say, Protestant
- Christianity? :)
-
- (Think for yourself, but be home by 10:00...see ya in 1998!)
-
- -Thomas
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