Re: Good read so far: In Defense Of Atheism

Alan Hope <usenet.identity@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Would you laugh at someone who worships Thor? Well
then, that's the way I feel about you.

Arguing aside, where's the line? At what point does it become so
silly that you can't help but laugh? Somewhere near Groppo's elves
and tinker bells? Nowhere? At the very start?

What deserves the laughing? Silly rituals of infinite precision,
conflicting logic, bizarre costumes, passing the hat, special names
for priests?

If everyone who claims they see something is a blind man describing
the same elephant, then what?

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it is easier to write than to unwrite.
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