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From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: Is there a spiritual force which also effects the future?
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 17:11:50 GMT
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In article <Cw4p8I.BsA@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca>,
Andrzej Pindor <pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>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.

My comment was intended to make virtually the same point as yours.
