Good point. In general, people tend to have very poor understanding of their own process.
Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com
Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
Of David McFadzean
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 9:20 AM
To: virus@lucifer.com; virus@lucifer.com
Subject: RE: virus: FAQ: question (c) - Believing
At 08:54 AM 6/18/99 -0700, Richard Brodie wrote:
>The effectiveness of such an argument assumes that people's primary reason
>for believing in God is that they think it's the Truth, which as I've
>pointed out many times is not the case, just a shallow misunderstanding of
>religion by atheists.
Theists are just as guilty of this "shallow misunderstanding" if you bother to listen to what they say. True, the argument will not be effective at converting anyone to atheism, but it should make theists realize that their reasons for believing in their god aren't what they thought they were.
-- David McFadzean david@lucifer.com Memetic Engineer http://www.lucifer.com/~david/ Church of Virus http://www.lucifer.com/virus/