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Re: lugnet.religion.flame
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 18 Dec 1998 04:04:54 GMT
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Jim Baker writes:
> faith or the lack of it. My experience has been that there are a lot
> more believers who behave in this fashion than non-believers.
I agree - sort of. My experience has also been that there are more
'believers'(1) who start these flame wars, however, I've noticed that once they
start, the majority of the participents (and the bulk of the volume) are from
'non-believers' being nearly as close-minded as the first person, often
treating their ideas with far more scorn than the original post merits.
Nothing in my experience leads me to think that atheists are as a whole any
more open-minded that any other cross-section of the human race.
1: I object to the term believer - I personally believe a great many things,
most of them not remotely religious, which qualifies me for being a 'believer',
however that phrase comes with whole bags of negative connotation. It's a
peeve. And philisophically, I would argue that there is no such thing as a
'non-believer' - with the possible exception of true autistics.
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| Also sprach Perhaps a Princess...: : "a crusader who won't hush until he makes everyone bow to his creator" : Don't you see a very definite amount of bile in the way you phrased : this? And why it might get on people's back like fingernails on a : (...) (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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