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

To: Lane3 who wrote (11646)	4/17/2001 11:58:16 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

No, it's not a reason to be an atheist, of course. I'm still waiting for a good one not to be an atheist; I've never heard or read one; and argument by testimonial from the religious will never persuade me. I've observed too many of those who offer such testimonials in action. It's sort of odd. In fact, testimonial isn't a logical argument or reason. But in some ways, it can be the most emotionally persuasive about certain sorts of matters. The only church I ever voluntarily attended was a Unitarian Church in Brooklyn Heights. I think it was on Monroe Place. At least that's where the friend who took me lived, and I seem to recall it was down the block. The sexton of the church was a devout, practicing Catholic, an old man who had worked there for decades. Before he retired, he converted. Became a Unitarian. (The minister of that church was, I was told by the parents of my friend, either an atheist or an agnostic; I think atheist.) The reason he gave was that those were the best people he'd ever known, and wherever they went for eternity is where he wanted to go. I can understand that.