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- Newsgroups: alt.astrology
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!tnl!roignard
- From: roignard@tnl.com (geoffrey inget)
- Subject: Re: what the hell..
- Organization: The Northern Lights
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:41:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <BzosLH.7y3@tnl.com>
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- In article <1h7cfnINN9p3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ch981@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Alicea) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, dtauzell@plains (David Tauzell) says:
- >>Even though hell doesn't exist, I would like to know what the hell atheism
- >>is. Don't get me wrong, I realize it is not believing in religion, but I
- >>mean, look at all the articles posted. I guess I'm not making myself
- >>really clear, but if anyone could enlighten me (although that would be a
- >>jump of faith) go ahead. Until then I will continue to have a great time
- >>reading all the stupid stuff you write about trying to prove or disprove
- >>god and whatever. Bye.
- >>
- >
- >You have wandered into this group by accident. You want alt.atheism or
- >something like that. We don't know what you're talking about.
- >
- >Tony
-
- No he hasn't wandered into the wrong group. I don't often feel it necessary
- to respond to such posts, but may I ask the poster of this article why he
- feels that astrology is tied to atheism. I don't feel that it is necessary
- to believe in God for many, but it seems to me very possible that astrology
- can actually help REINFORCE people's beliefs in God because it gives the
- sense of a higher order. And who more likely to have ordained the universe?
- Not taking sides on the issue here but I feel it is necessary to consider
- that option. It shouldn't be tied to atheism or the opposite. Perhaps being
- skeptical for the case of being a skeptic is at times a little self-limiting.
-
- geoff
-