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Damiano's Lute

Dennis Higbee den at monger.net
Tue Nov 26 11:43:09 PST 2002

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Casey Rousseau wrote:

> Dennis Higbee wrote:
> > Atheism is not a religion, but there are atheists who make it into one.
> 
> I think we are saying the same thing but making different divisions.  I
> would say there are people who have no religion but they are not atheists.
> 
> It may boil down to the difference between:
> 
> I believe in no god.
> and
> I believe there is no god
> 
> The first is not a statement of religion.  The second is indistinguishable
> from a religion.

You're right.  We do agree.  You just expressed it much more simply and 
elegantly than I did.

-Dennis