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From: celit!com!ps%ucsd@ucsd.edu (Patricia Shanahan)
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Subject: Re: Ridicule of Atheistic Evangelism
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Date: 1 Oct 90 01:20:06 GMT
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In article <Sep.27.03.48.27.1990.14816@athos.rutgers.edu> oracle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Brian T. Coughlin) writes:
...
> From what I've seen, I think
> Joe was asserting that the promotion of atheism should strike theists
> as undesirable, and that theists should make a concerted effort to
> prevent it (within the bounds of reasonable behavior, of course).
>

Many atheists, myself included, find the promotion of theism undesirable.
Should we make a concerted effort to prevent it (within the bounds of
reasonable behavior, of course)?

If so, what do you think should be the bounds of reasonable behavior?

I have generally assumed that there is really very little that can or
should be done to prevent people from promoting their sincerely held
beliefs, however much one may disapprove of them.
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