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From: cher@ihuxi.UUCP (Mike Musing)
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Subject: Re: Absurdity and Unbelief
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Date: Tue, 10-Jul-84 16:54:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 10 16:54:08 1984
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> 
>                                             The secularists
> are unparalleled for absurdity and provide far more material
> for mockery than Ernest Angeley or Jerry Falwell ever have.
> Maybe the seeming timidity of believers has something to do
> with the Christian tradition of *Apologetics*.
> 
> Am I the only one who looks at it like this?

Oh, no. Ernest and Jerry are right there with you. 
"The secularists" that gave you so many happy moments do not
make their living representing atheism ("secularism") -
quite unlike these two gentlemen's relation to Christianity.
Also, your explanation of the "timidity" would have greatly
amused a number of people - from that Jew who got burned during
an auto-da-fe, to that Protestant who got shot by some Catholic.

"Talk a lot, so that they have
 enough things to quote 4000 years from now."    
                                         -  God, addressing Solomon.

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                     Mike Musing