Re: Superstition (A Halloween Message)

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Mon Nov 01 1999 - 00:32:12 MST


In a message dated 10/31/1999 2:48:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
spike66@ibm.net writes:

> If we had a spaceship with a collection of rational thinking humans
> and no influence from earth, I suspect that 4 generations down the
> road, religions would spontaneously form, and would likely
> go thru the destructive phases described by Voltaire. {8-[ spik

Does anyone ever read how personally vicious and hateful Voltaire was? Is
this an ideological need to turn a blind eye to such bigots? Is religion the
enemy of rationalism and science; or merely the enemy of atheism?



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