Interestingly Marsha, That is exactly my point ... Agnostic, but fervently so, not a matter of apathy .... there is very little to choose between an elightened atheist and an enlightened agnostic.
I don't think it is necessarily cowardly to take that view. Ian On 1/16/08, MarshaV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:31 AM 1/16/2008, you wrote: > >Hi Marsha, > > > > >>On forms with the little categories for race, religion, etc., do you > > >>check off atheist? > > > > >I've never seen it offered as a choice. Have you? > > > >Actually, I don't think so. They probably say "no religious > >affiliation" or something. How about in a survey where they want to > >determine belief in God? Would you say you are an "atheist"? > > > >This guy Sam Harris makes a lot of good arguments that religious > >moderates create the context where religious extremism can thrive > >because political correctness keeps us from questioning people's > >beliefs which sometime results in suicide bombers and murder of > >abortion doctors. > > Hi Steve, > > A couple of years ago, I went to the Emergency Room at the local > hospital. It was my first time at this particular hospital so they > asked me a bunch of questions. One question was my religion. I was > struck dumb by the question for at least a minute, and then mentally > scrambled for a correct answer. Witch? Pagan? Atheist? Because > there are so many religious nuts running about these days, and being > a coward, I said agnostic. > > Marsha > > > > > > ************* > DEFINITION of Marsha, I, me, self, & etc.: Ever-changing > collection of overlapping, interrelated, inorganic, biological, > social and intellectual, static patterns of value. > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
