Re: atheism and astrology?


<cantueso@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Icarus wrote:
>> cantueso@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> > the nasty thing about atheism is that it makes people wonder
>> > whether maybe in the stars there is some guidance. so you
>> > watch them chewing astro terminologies saying: who knows,
>> > maybe there is some truth in that.
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>> That's not a 'nasty thing about atheism', it's simply being gullible and
>> superstitious -
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> it is not the same. I would have thought that a religion, unlike a
> superstition, is based on public doctrine. what is frightening about
> mere superstitions is that they are based on hearsay, and people who
> accept them do not look further.

Religion is documented superstition. People who accept religion do not look
any further.




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