> Do you think the Pope and every other religious person on the planet
> is nuts?
>That's what memetics is all about, John. Most religions are
virulently expansionist memes; diseases of the mind, if you will.
When belief in a god dies, the god dies. How lively do you think
Odin or Zeus or Ra are these days, huh? About as lively as Jehovah
and Allah will be when human civilization outgrows them, too. It's
just a matter of mental maturity, cognitive inoculation, and time.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe E. Dees <jdees0@students.uwf.edu>
> To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 3:47 PM
> Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
>
>
> > From: "Johnny Rea" <matziq@airmail.net>
> > To: <virus@lucifer.com>
> > Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
> > Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 14:36:53 -0500
> > Reply-to: virus@lucifer.com
>
> > Well, I happen to think that anyone that can look at us, the earth, the
> > universe,
> > etc and still think it all happened by chance is nuts.
> In that case, you think that the great preponderance of Nobel
> Laureates (and nominees) in physics and chemistry are nuts. I'm sure
> that if they heard that, they would just consider the source.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe E. Dees <jdees0@students.uwf.edu>
> > To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 2:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
> >
> >
> > > From: "John Rea" <matziq@airmail.net>
> > > To: <virus@lucifer.com>
> > > Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
> > > Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 13:24:35 -0500
> > > Reply-to: virus@lucifer.com
> >
> > > In order to be a true anti-mormon you have to devote 100% of your
> > > life to it.
> > > Are you up for it?
> > No, you can just casually hold the reasonable opinion that they're
> > nuts.
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Bob Hartwig <hartwig@ais.net>
> > > To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
> > > Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 11:12 AM
> > > Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
> > >
> > >
> > > >Spoken just like a true anti-mormon.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Well no duh...
> > >
> > > Actually, before you started posting a couple of days ago, I had never
> met
> > > a mormon. I knew that mormons were pious, but had no idea how extremely
> > > fundamentalist they were. I had no idea how ugly their belief system
> was.
> > > Thanks for the education, I feel proud to be among the ranks of the
> > > anti-mormons now.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>