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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (2763)	10/26/2000 3:58:10 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

To: CobaltBlue who wrote (2601) From: E Wednesday, Oct 25, 2000 7:53 PM ET Reply # of 2763 That isn't responsive. Atheism doesn't purport to be a religion or a moral code. It is merely a statement about whether or not one believes that a conscious entity created us. Theism in itself is only the belief there is a God-consciousness of some sort, and is not, until we get to that God's injunctions, itself a moral code. Pol Pot and Stalin were not associated with any worldly or "spiritual" institution or any moral code with which I identify or defend. Again, atheism is not a moral code. It is a statement of opinion about a single issue. Atheists are as various in their moral codes as are theists. (And of course theists with all sorts of different orders from their deities have attempted to force them down the throats of other theists who intuit a different package of orders.)

To: E who wrote (2763)	10/27/2000 1:23:13 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

E, There are 2 other groups in the prison chart that may contain atheists, other 4.08%, and no preference 12.55%. It may be that, just as in non-prison life, most god doubters don't want to use the term atheist because it is too antagonistic of a term. I wonder how many would have chosen agnostic, if it was an option. Just yesterday, in a restaurant, I overheard a waitress refusing to believe that one of her elderly customers, who she knew on a first name basis, was an atheist when he mentioned it in casual conversation. He was just too nice she said. If he had used the term agnostic, or just said that he doesn't attend any church, she probably wouldn't have even reacted. In our society, atheist is presently a lightning rod word, that a lot of people would rather avoid using. Del