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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: gao seng who wrote (25534)8/31/2001 2:28:51 AM
From: gao seng  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
Let me rephrase that, and attempt to clarify what I am trying to say.

Our rights come from a Creator. I don't see how someone who is an agnostic would risk his life over these rights, although I do see how an atheist would not risk their life for these rights. But as they say, there are no atheists in foxholes. So, I really do not think there is such a thing as an atheist. Some would say we are all agnostic. I do not agree. For those of good faith, it is a rather simple thing to hear the Way of the Tao.

I seriously look at it this way:

When a wise scholar hears the Tao,
He practices it diligently.
When a mediocre scholar hears the Tao,
He wavers between belief and unbelief.
When a worthless scholar hears the Tao,
He laughs boisterously at it.
But if such a one does not laugh at it,
The Tao would not be the Tao!

-Tao Teh Ching (The Daode jing)
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