[ExI] [extropy-chat] Changing Other Poster's Minds

[Fred C. Moulton]

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 20:06 -0700, spike wrote:
> After thinking about this for years, long after realizing that the religion
> I knew was not true, I finally realized that it matters to me if my religion
> is true.  I love true things.  Religion should be treated as any scientific
> theory.  In that sense, altho I am now an atheist, I still have the
> fundamentalist's outlook, ja?
> 

Spike

Interesting points.   Given the history of the term "fundamentalist" I
prefer to restrict my usage of it.  This I use the term for referring to
fundamentalists in the sense of religious faith and try to use other
terms to refer to the persons who are deeply and critically interested
in the accuracy and validity of ideas but who do not have faith.  Of
course coming up with the other terms is not a simple matter.

Fred