<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV><STRONG>Extropy-chat is not a religion because in 2 decades it has stood the test of non-mysticism. </STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Thank God for small favors.</STRONG><BR><BR><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,0); FONT-STYLE: italic">the future belongs to the strong-- of stomach</SPAN><BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 12/11/09, John Clark <I><jonkc@bellsouth.net></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: John Clark <jonkc@bellsouth.net><BR>Subject: Re: [ExI] Atheism<BR>To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR>Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 1:29 PM<BR><BR>
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<DIV>On Dec 11, 2009,  Post Futurist wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium Verdana; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px" class=Apple-style-span><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: small" class=Apple-style-span>Atheism<EM><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>can</EM><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>be termed a de facto religion/faith. It does, for instance, include academic rituals.<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV>
<DIV>For a word to be useful you need contrast, if everything has the Klognee property then it's not a useful concept. Can you pleas tell me something that is NOT a religion?</DIV>
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<DIV> John K Clark</DIV><BR></DIV><BR>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<BR><BR>
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