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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
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Subject: Re: Moderation (was Re: Discussion: talk.religion.pagan)
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Date: 15 Nov 89 17:49:39 GMT
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In article <9608@goofy.megatest.UUCP>, djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:

|  A woderful example comes up again and again: Every few months a certain
|  correspondent posts a message to some group or another saying "Atheism is a
|  religion." He must do it just for spite, because the atheists rail against
|  it for months every time. I know I did.

  ??? How could anyone disagree with that? A religion is a (system of)
beliefs about the nature of God. I can't see that anyone could possibly
deny you the right to call yourself a religion of you choose to do so.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon