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From: bobb@tekfdi.TEK.COM (Robert Bales)
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Subject: Re: Reply to Douglas Clark re. 'poor deluded Americans, etc.'
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Date: Sun, 8-Mar-87 14:35:43 EST
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In article <832@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> cc_dgdc@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Clark) writes:
>It is incredible that Friedrich Nietzsche understood what scientific
>discoveries had done to the concept of god a hundred years ago but today
>there areeducated Americans who cannot face the facts. 

Facts, or the speculations of scientists who use non-scientific reasoning 
(since scientific reasoning doesn't indicate the non-existence of God) to
speculate that God doesn't exist?

>I think that the only person left in Great Britain who believes in god is
>Old Soapy, Robert Runcie - the Archbishop of Canterbury, but I have heard
>rumours that he is losing confidence too.

How many came to hear Billy Graham on his last visit to Britian?

>Anyway god is for wimps.

>If you need a god in your life to sustain you then you must be very lacking
>in inner resources. It's not really all that lonely to be on your own. It
>doesn't rule out love. That is a much more sustaining force.

Of course, this is based on the assumption that God doesn't exist. If He does,
the situation is quite different.

>I recommend you read some feminist psychoanalysis (Nancy Chodorow etc) if
>you really want to find out where you came from.

Are there any objective reasons to believe that this would get one closer to
the truth than reading the Bible?

   Bob Bales
   Tektronix, Inc.

I help Tektronix make their instruments. They don't help me make my opinions.