on 24/11/02 8:20 pm, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 1:57 PM > Subject: Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated > > >>> From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>>> http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,845725,00.html >> >>> I've noticed that "The Fool" posts things like this religiously. :-) >> >> As long as there are people who believe these kinds of things, whether >> they are christians, jews, islamists, hindus or whatever, (and I know >> plenty of people with this kind of worldview personally), the human race >> is headed for extinction. It is only a matter of time before the >> fanatics do us all in. > > I'm just pointing out, that by using expanded definitions of religion, as > Mr. Goodall suggests, you would be considered as someone who had a > religion.
You are disingenuously misrepresenting what I said, Dan. And even under an expanded definition of religion (eg one that subsumed quasi-religions like Marxism) the Fool's belief that religion is evil wouldn't itself be a religion. He may 'religiously' believe that religion is evil, but his belief isn't itself a religion because those are different senses of the word. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
