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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (11162)	4/13/2001 1:28:45 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I find they are not. And I meet scads of them at the Unitarian church. Of course some of them are not the least bit curious. However this is, I think preferable to many of the religious evangelicals, who are not curious about me in the least, but actually want to get involved in my life by saving me, whether or not I think I need it. I know of no agnostics, curious or otherwise, doing anything that obtrusive and annoying. I have always been interested in people with faith, who won't follow me home and try to convert me. I find their belief interesting. As you probably know I think people are just wired differently for religion. There was a new study that claimed it found a place in the brain that can influence faith- I heard a little bit about it on NPR. I've no idea if it's true (that or anything else)- but it makes sense to me that like most anything else the ability to feel faith is probably hardwired to some extent, and to some extent environmental. I can't come up with any other reasonable explanation for the existence of humans that seem like alien creatures to me.

To: Neocon who wrote (11162)	4/14/2001 10:11:52 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I suppose I ought to clarify what distinctions I make and don't lest someone believe your claim? I do, too know the difference between a fundamentalist and "somebody who just happens to believe in God;" and I have noted that parts of your personal intellectual larynx emit a distinct quacking sound; but it's true, also, that I no longer attend as closely as perhaps I should to your intellectual machinations. I have in the past found them to be characteristically so Jesuitical as not to be interesting except as case studies in results-oriented thinking. Perhaps in the future if you are going to characterize me tendentiously, you will do it to me directly instead of in the third person? or perhaps you could send me a link? I would appreciate it.