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Subject: Re: Is there a spiritual force etc.?
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In article <zlsiida.91.2E86D30D@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (Dave Budd) writes:
>From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (Dave Budd)
>Subject: Re: Is there a spiritual force etc.?
>Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 13:56:30 GMT

>In article <pja1.3.01726D15@rsvl.unisys.com> pja1@rsvl.unisys.com writes:

>>   If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.   - Voltaire

>        doesn't               isn't                      sexist

> 

doesn't - this is not empirically determinable

isn't - this is hardly self-evident, cf. Joseph Campbell's "The Hero With A 
          Thousand Faces"

sexist - argumentum ad hominem

   The superfluous, a very necessary thing.   --Voltaire

:-)


