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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
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- Subject: Re: J'ACCUSE JOAN CAMPBELL (and dozens of others)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.182123.14731@s1.gov>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 18:21:23 GMT
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- In article <nyikos.716476657@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >In <1992Sep13.154534.19424@watson.ibm.com> Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com> writes:
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- @ Atheism refers
- @ to the belief in a god; it has nothing to do with a belief in an afterlife.
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- >This either/or thinking is typical of pro-choicers on talk.abortion.
- >"Nothing to do with" is downright silly. People who disbelieve in an
- >afterlife but believe in a Creator and a god able to intervene in
- >history are few and far between. The Sadducees may have been of that sort,
- >true, but even in the OT there soon appeared a belief in Sheol, and
- >even earlier there is a reference to Enoch that "God took him".
-
- Wrongo. Most of the OT has little hint of belief in life after
- death, let alone rewards and punishments after death. One becomes a
- wispy ghost, apparently, if anything at all. The ancient Greek Hades
- was a similar kind of place.
-