On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 09:37 PM, Pete Theisen wrote:
> Well, people don't usually go around getting all agitated trying to get
> people to not collect stamps, or do they? I guess sometimes we can see
> stamp collecting hotly denounced as "nonsense" or words to that effect.
Exactly. I find stamp collecting utterly meaningless to me, so I don't
do it. There are lots of other things I don't do, for similar reasons.
To claim that not doing something is the same as doing something is
ridiculous.
I find that religious believers always try to bring everyone else to
their view of the world - almost as if there is a need to reinforce
that we are all believing in something mystical, even if that something
is different. Sorry, but it is simply not true, and all your efforts to
paint it as such don't change reality. "Atheism" means a lack of theism
- IOW, an *absence* of a belief.
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