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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Evolving Religions (track 2)
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Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 12:24:33 EDT
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In article <1096@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Arthur Pewtey) writes:

>> How does the requirement that a belief system have no deity (Humanism
>> isn't necessarily atheistic.  I assume that you mean that Humanism may
>> have objective validity *if* it is atheistic) insure that it may have
>> objective validity? [DUBUC]

>By refraining from speculative notions about deities that cannot be proven,
>a belief system sticks to the real world of real people and things.  That
>simple.

Since you've decided that you will not accept any evidence on the matter,
Rich, this criticism carries no weight.  The best you can justify on that
basis is agnosticism.

Charley Wingate   umcp-cs!mangoe