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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
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Subject: atheist group call for votes.. How'd it go?
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Date: 26 Jan 89 02:51:58 GMT
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I've been tuned out of talk.religion.misc for a few months.  Just popped
back in for a quick looksee.  Not much has changed.  I see that Joe A. is
still arguing that atheism is a religion.  It's really kind of funny.

There was one new issue that grabbed my attention, though:
There was a reference to a call for votes for an atheist-issues
group.

How'd it go?  If the matter is still open, I would like to vote in favor.

I think there is plenty for us atheists to talk about, including

    1. How to make separation of church and state a reality, in the
       area of taxation, for example;
    2. How to deal with the "creation science" issue in public schools;
    3. How to make atheism more respectable, particularly in politics;

And of course there would be debates with interloping religious
folk, just as there are debates with atheists in talk.religion.misc, 
but that could not be helped.  We could encourage followups_to:
talk.religion.misc, to keep cross-posting down.

If talk.atheism is too specific, how about talk.skeptics?

We could discuss all manner of superstition and urban myth: ancient
astronauts, the living Elvis, ESP, UFOS, lie-detector tests, crystal
healing, astrology.  Maybe you don't think one or more of the above 
is bogus.  We could discuss it. It could be great fun, and potentially 
quite constructive.