Dragaera

The Religion Debate

Frank Mayhar frank at exit.com
Fri Nov 29 15:08:04 PST 2002

Alex Nixon wrote:
> Canada, actually.

Hey, it was a rhetorical question (I was thinking maybe Europe, but
Canada may also be better than the US in this respect).

> But that's not the point.  I'm saying that there's enough of a place in 
> society for Atheism that it's pretty foolish to be angry about it.

This is where I disagree.  I don't think that there's very much of a place
in society at all for atheism.

> Maybe I didn't make myself clear: I consider questioning to be great and 
> productive, but anger and hate over religion is neither.

I disagree with this, too.  Hate may not be productive, but anger can be
_very_ productive, as an agent for change.
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