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From: sodom <Sodom@ma.ultranet.com>
To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: virus: Religion
>yea, what he said.
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>Sodom
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>Wade T.Smith wrote:
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>> > And
>> >you're as sure that your tribe is right as any religions zealot I've
ever
>> >met.
>> >
>> >(And even more xenophobic than they, I dare say!)
>>
>> Well, I pick my friends very carefully....
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>> The 'tribe' of skeptics sit in their 'right' place because they've earned
>> it, not because they read it, or had it told to them, or because they
>> live amongst those who do, and because every fact is backed up by the
>> entire universe, not just recited on a Sunday from a pew.
>>
>> However, it is a 'xenophobia' of ideas and capacity to use them, not a
>> xenophobia of a racial or an ideological characteristic. But, yes, if one
>> does not doubt, question, or strive to find the facts, one is not welcome
>> beyond a visit.
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