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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU ("Don't even know my real name!")
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Christmas parties
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Date: 8 Jan 88 03:18:32 GMT
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) >markv@drizzle.UUCP (Mark VandeWettering) writes:
) >) 	If one adopts a religion, one is forced to accept the
) >) 	fact that there are things which cannot be explained or proved.
) >) 	It makes for a much simpler lifestyle, and for some, one that is
) >) 	potentially more rich.

) matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Me) writes:
) >Way to go, Mark.  Spoken like a true neo-conservative.  Accept
) >authority, don't ask questions, and wear ignorance like a badge!

jst1@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (John Tomas) writes:
) I find your summary of Mark's comments lacking in intellectual
) subtlety. ...

I'm arguing with a guy who is praising the virtue of turning off his
brain and you want me to be SUBTLE???  I'll ignore the rest of what
you wrote because it is irrelevant and also makes you look like a U
of C undergraduate who just had his first common-core course in
history of religion.  Which may very well be the case.

				Matt
	I can incant, decant and recant, but I can't cant.