Piggyback. I didn't see the original...
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:35:05 -0400, Mani Deli <mani@sympatico.ca>
wrote:
someone wrote:
An atheist is someone who defines himself by what he does NOT believe.
Bizarre, or what?
The guy who wrote that isbeing deliberately stupid.
We don't "define ourselves". The English language does that. We are
peopel who are absent the property of being theist.
Theists exist and have a huge impact on us, the world and the country
we live in.
A Christian, someone who is supposed to believe:
-He is a miserable sinner because someone ate the wrong fruit.
-a pair of every species of animal entered a ship before a big
rainstorm.
-A virgin gave birth to a jewish charismatic leader who created fish
and bread out of nothing, revived a corpse, and came back to life
three days after being executed.
-that there is a god who created the universe's largest concentration
camp out of sheer love.
-etc. etc.
Bizarre? Not really, just plain stupid.
I agree. And they are so lacking in understanding for their fellow man
thay imagine that we won't come to this conclusion when they insist on
telling us all this even if we aren't interested.
Even though thee other religions that way themselves.
...no skill no art!
"One man's religion is another man's belly laugh" - Robert Anson
Heinlein.
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