> Do you think the Pope and every other religious person on the planet
> is nuts?
>
I can't speak for him, but I feel that they aren't, nor are you. Like the
slaveowners in the pre-Reconstruction South, like those who believed in
inheritance of aquired characteristics, indeed like all the people who believed
in the flatness of the Earth and the geocentric solar system, you are merely
victims of the culture to which you have been exposed. I reserve the term
'nuts' or insane for those who take an idea too far and retain their opinion in
the face of overwhelming opposition and who in addition were not raised in a
misguided culture or could have been reasonably expected to question their
culture. his would include cultists, perhaps the Amish, the Flat Earthers of
today, those who believe that the atomic bomb doesn't work, people who feel that
HIV is a Soviet biological weapon which escaped (Right, you use it in a war and
the enemy dies 10 years later after you've been conquered) and similar
individuals.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe E. Dees <jdees0@students.uwf.edu>
> To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 3:47 PM
> Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
>
> > From: "Johnny Rea" <matziq@airmail.net>
> > To: <virus@lucifer.com>
> > Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
> > Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 14:36:53 -0500
> > Reply-to: virus@lucifer.com
>
> > Well, I happen to think that anyone that can look at us, the earth, the
> > universe,
> > etc and still think it all happened by chance is nuts.
> In that case, you think that the great preponderance of Nobel
> Laureates (and nominees) in physics and chemistry are nuts. I'm sure
> that if they heard that, they would just consider the source.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe E. Dees <jdees0@students.uwf.edu>
> > To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 2:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
> >
> >
> > > From: "John Rea" <matziq@airmail.net>
> > > To: <virus@lucifer.com>
> > > Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
> > > Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 13:24:35 -0500
> > > Reply-to: virus@lucifer.com
> >
> > > In order to be a true anti-mormon you have to devote 100% of your
> > > life to it.
> > > Are you up for it?
> > No, you can just casually hold the reasonable opinion that they're
> > nuts.
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Bob Hartwig <hartwig@ais.net>
> > > To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
> > > Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 11:12 AM
> > > Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
> > >
> > >
> > > >Spoken just like a true anti-mormon.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Well no duh...
> > >
> > > Actually, before you started posting a couple of days ago, I had never
> met
> > > a mormon. I knew that mormons were pious, but had no idea how extremely
> > > fundamentalist they were. I had no idea how ugly their belief system
> was.
> > > Thanks for the education, I feel proud to be among the ranks of the
> > > anti-mormons now.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
-- Nathan Russell frussell@frontiernet.net
"I am confident that the Republicans will pick a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton" -Dan Quayle on the 2000 presidential election