From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 07:12:13 +0800
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: atheism (was: RE: Democracy... (fwd)) (fwd)
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> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:34:19 -0700
> From: "Fred C. Moulton" <moulton@moulton.com>
> Subject: Re: atheism (was: RE: Democracy... (fwd)) (fwd)

> Within the past year I attended a lecture by Mr. Smith and during the
> lecture he indicated that his formulation was being preferred by
> scholars in the field while the one given by Jim Choate was still
> used in the popular culture.
> 
> Thus I think it is inappropriate to criticize the definition of 
> atheism used by pjm@spe.com.

Well Fred you and pjm can believe what you wish, I fully support it.

However, yourself, pjm, & Mr. Smith are claiming that a belief that
something doesn't exist isn't a belief is simply a tricky play on semantics.
A belief in a negative is still a belief irrespective of how many people
believe it. Might doesn't make right (or logical).

As I've demonstrated before (and for the last time):

^(A) = (^A)

Argue all you want,

Yet it moves.

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