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Religions > Atheism |
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"Enkidu" |
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20 Dec 2005 04:31:06 PM |
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Edgar Allan Poe, rational atheist. |
"The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more
trouble and war than all other classes of mankind."
and
"No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter ... than you and
I; and all religion ... is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed,
imagination and poetry."
--
Enkidu AA#2165
http://www.musings.leaddogs.org/
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
PGP ID: 0xC4CE8CF0
So Dubya goes to war because god told him to.
There's a woman down in Texas who bashed in her kid's skulls for the same
reason.
-- Ed Krebs
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| User: "Matt Silberstein" |
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| Title: Re: Edgar Allan Poe, rational atheist. |
20 Dec 2005 07:04:49 PM |
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On 20 Dec 2005 22:31:06 GMT, in alt.atheism , Enkidu
<jdwnx4702@sneakemail.com> in <Xns973293BDDB297255229@130.133.1.4>
wrote:
"The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more
trouble and war than all other classes of mankind."
and
"No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter ... than you and
I; and all religion ... is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed,
imagination and poetry."
I wonder when the last time it was that Poe was called a rational
anything or when he was held up as a role model. Do you think about
these things?
--
Matt Silberstein
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| User: "Enkidu" |
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| Title: Re: Edgar Allan Poe, rational atheist. |
20 Dec 2005 11:12:28 PM |
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Matt Silberstein <RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote in
news:2gahq1l1e7t9gsi1d5t1g2ccjjedgt10jq@4ax.com:
On 20 Dec 2005 22:31:06 GMT, in alt.atheism , Enkidu
<jdwnx4702@sneakemail.com> in <Xns973293BDDB297255229@130.133.1.4>
wrote:
"The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of
more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind."
and
"No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter ... than you
and I; and all religion ... is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear,
greed, imagination and poetry."
I wonder when the last time it was that Poe was called a rational
anything or when he was held up as a role model. Do you think about
these things?
Poe was more than a nutty poet.
--
Enkidu AA#2165
http://www.musings.leaddogs.org/
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
PGP ID: 0xC4CE8CF0
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
- Benjamin Franklin
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