<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 4:08 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I'm equating people who are violent, coercive, etc., and happen to be<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>atheists, with with people who are violent, coercive, etc., and happen<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>to be believers.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">In his novel "Quartet" Spinoza said "<i>Good people will do good things and bad people will do bad things, but to have good people do bad things, for that you need religion</i>".</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I can't be talked out my point.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">I have absolutely no loyalty to ideas so I can be talked out of any point, all that's needed is a logical argument that is stronger than my own, when that happens I abandon my previous position and embrace the new one as my own until something even better comes along.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></font></div></div>