[extropy-chat] Dante and transhumanism

[Damien Broderick]

At 11:37 AM 11/29/2006 +0000, BillK wrote:

>Even atheists
>have mystical experiences, but they don't link the experience so much
>to traditional religions. Some atheists are converted, after an
>overwhelming mystical experience, to a formal religion they have some
>previous knowledge of.

This seems to be precisely what happened to >H sf writer John C. 
Wright (an occasional poster to this list), who converted to 
Christian Science, a rather zany mutation of Xianity. He's probably 
lucky there wasn't a Scientologist in the room at the time.

Damien Broderick