From: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:25:56 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Slander of Catholic Church
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Joseph Smith hallucinates again and writes:

> It is unforunate that the esteem that I once felt for you is 
> dwindling because of your anti-Mormon trash. Perhaps you do not realise 
> that some people take more than an academic interest in their religion 
> ;this is unforunate.

If people want to believe in a religion which combines the best features 
of anthropomorphic sky-God worship with a UFO contactee cult, that is their
Constitutional right, giggling from the audience notwithstanding. 

I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who said that the voluminous amount of
theological writings by Christian scholars existed only because "nonsense
can never be explained."  I tend to concur.

Most religious doctrine is just a lot of energized enthusiasm.

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