Re: virus: Newsweek - Science finds God

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Sun, 2 Aug 1998 00:05:07 -0700


Hakeeb wrote:

>Is atheism a meme or is it IMHO a refusal to accept a theist meme?
>Is it fair to say that not believing in God is an ideology?

I would say it can be either. I know some people who were raised as
"capital-a" Atheists (with the accompanying distinction memes and prejudices
against all things religious) and others for whom atheism is not a meme, but
simply the default value left by not possessing the <God> meme.

-Prof. Tim