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Re: OT: Religion or America is a religion
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Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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[log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 5 Aug 2003 14:23:22 -0700422_US-ASCII On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 10:47 AM, Erik Vistica wrote:

> Oh Wirt, how can you know so much and be so ignorant of the love of
> God?

<<snip>>

Socrates told his persecutors (prior to their executing him for
refusing to profess a belief in God) that neither they nor he knew
there was a God but that he differed from them in knowing that he
didn't know. [...]37_5Aug200314:23:[log in to unmask]
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Fred writes:

> Neither Wirt nor I are atheists. We are agnostics.

Unfortunately, Fred has this wrong. I am a devout diagnostic.

An agnostic is a person who simply doesn't know. A diagnostic is a person who
doesn't know half as much.

Wirt Atmar

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