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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Is there a spiritual force which also effects the future?
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 16:45:54 GMT
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In article <Cw3927.FDF@spss.com>, Mark Rosenfelder <markrose@spss.com> wrote:
>........
>There's something about religion that makes people completely abandon
>rationality and standards of evidence, and condemn to perdition anyone who
>doesn't agree with them.  And that's just the effect on the *un*believers.
>
You surely know about an atheist ideology which did exactly the same things
(abandon ..., condemn...) with terrible effects on unbelievers (and
believers too). So perhaps it is not a belief in God by itself which leads
to such awful consequences.

Andrzej

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