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To: E who wrote (11617)	4/16/2001 10:41:33 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You asked me a while back whether any fundamentalists would ever not oppose abortion. (Not in those words, but that was the gist.) Coincidentally, here's Pat Robertson, who surely qualifies in your book as a fundamentalist: WASHINGTON (AP) - Rev. Pat Robertson, a leader of the national anti-abortion movement, said leaders in China who are forcing women to have abortions are ``doing what they have to do.'' In an interview Monday night on CNN's ``Wolf Blitzer Reports,'' Robertson said the United States should not interfere with China's policy. ``Well, you know, I don't agree with it, but at the same time, they've got 1.2 billion people and they don't know what to do,'' said Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition. ``If every family over there was allowed to have three or four children, the population would be completely unsustainable.'' ``So I think that right now they're doing what they have to do. I don't agree with the forced abortion, but I don't think the United States needs to interfere with what they're doing internally in this regard.''

To: E who wrote (11617)	4/17/2001 9:32:52 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

, Steven posted the following recently, and it is in accord with my religious beliefs, also. I call it "atheism," but then I was raised as an atheist and in my family we called those who feel as described below "atheists," not agnostics. Ah, the label thing. Most of my life I considered myself an atheist. Just recently, via the discussion on this thread, and after much resistance, I concluded that I was an agnostic after all. Message 15225059 I think the words posted by Steven could have come from either an atheist or an agnostic. Given that 90% of the people in this country are believers, I'm becoming less inclined to devote the energy into the fine distinction between a "soft-core atheist" and an "agnostic." As I said to CH, either label is fine with me. I'm really simply secular or nonreligious. Karen