[extropy-chat] Atheist Hymn Book, naturalist point of view.

[Thomas]

Emlyn wrote:

>Yep, concentrating on the positive is a good idea IMO.
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>>(1) Atheist meaning I don't reject the belief in God
>>and/or/although, I don't abide by the exact points
>>of the definitions given by religion.
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>This is not atheism! This is some kind of unspecified mysticism.
>Atheism is the "disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or
>gods" (got that from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/atheism,
>which also lists some rather irritating definitions like "the doctrine
>or belief that there is no God", which I know a lot of atheists would
>disagree with).
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>Emlyn
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I think Anna, like many of us, is not fully polarized on the God 
concept.  Some may have a haunting "simulus" (Minsky's term) built up in 
the mind even though we've rejected the self contradictory concept we 
were handed.  My father, at the time he pointed out the contradictions, 
also mentioned that religion has kept a lot of people from being bad. 
 Is the unknowable really worth denying?  Realistically, God, the 
delusion, has existed for a long time.  I prefer to handle that fact as 
gracefully as possible, but I'm not above kicking dogma and hypocrisy in 
the butt.  This Principia Cybernetica page 
<http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/GOD.html> offers an interesting disscussion of 
the (dis)belief in God spectrum.  Gently,  Thomas

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