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/***** ea:net.religion / ssc-vax!david /  6:15 pm  Apr 25, 1984 */
A philosophy which denies miracles from the outset can never accept God.
(As an aside, I think it is sad that many of these same people are the first
to turn to the daily horoscope to discover how masses of burning hydrogen
located billions of miles away should affect their daily lives - but I'm not
accusing Bob of this).

	-- David Norris        :-)
	-- uw-beaver!ssc-vax!david
/* ---------- */

It's the aside I want to deal with here. My experience has been the exact
opposite: those who reject religion because it's irrational are the ones
who tend to reject astrology, psychics and etc. Those who've discovered
that neither religion nor rationality can "provide all the answers"
(without them doing any work) are the ones who often swallow such bogosity
in large doses. I don't have any hard figures on this - do you, david?

I will concede that, taken against the populace as a whole, Christians tend
to believe in irrational things less than average. I can even provide data
to back it up. (It would take a couple of weeks to chase the references
down. Please be patient if you ask for them.) But they've already got a
book with all the answers in it, so why look farther?

	<mike