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To: Edwarda who wrote (41158)	6/20/1999 4:16:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

Ah- see my post to Cobalt. I do not disagree with you. But some here have checked their higher reasoning functions at the church door. And I must say that such checking is encouraged in most religions. They work better if their members aren't too critical.

To: Edwarda who wrote (41158)	6/20/1999 4:17:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Having faith is not at all incompatible with hanging onto one's higher reasoning functions. You're fighting a losing battle on this issue, at least on this thread, I fear. The level of thought here, at least recently, seems to have hardened into two options. If you believe in God, you are an irrational believer in magic who obviously has no ability to reason because if you did you wouldn't believe in that nonsense. In the alternative, your mind works, in which case you must obviously be an aethist (or maybe an agnostic working on being an aethist) since nobody with a working mind could ever believe in that superstitious religious garbage. Hmmm. Guess I'm not quite over my bitterness yet. I'll be interested in seeing whether anybody other than you and I will have the courage to step forward and admit that one can be both a fully rational being and a believer in God.