[extropy-chat] Atheists launch inquisition...

[Samantha Atkins]

My dad was a Southern Baptist Deacon from Hell type.  The entire
family had to go to church - three times on Sunday and prayer meeting
on Wednesday to boot.   As I turned atheistic around age 14 or so I of
course objected.  He insisted.  So for two years I carried Bertrand
Russels, "Why I am not a Christian" to church instead of the Bible.  
This was in the heart of the Bible Belt in the sixties so this made me
r-e-a-l popular. :-)

-s


On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:01:17 -0800, Spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > Olga Bourlin
> ...
> > Bertrand Russell once went on about how - yes, certainly, it
> > was *possible* (I am paraphrasing from memory) that Saturn's rings
> hold 
> > porcelain teacups...Olga
> 
> A local christian minister who is a converted muslim
> stirred the pot by posting on his sign out front
> his upcoming sermon title: Why I am Not a Muslim.
> 
> The local news agencies, TV, radio and both major
> newspapers jumped on it, reporting that some considered
> it offensive, racist, yakkity yak and bla bla.  With
> alllll the ink that was spilled on this silly thing,
> *none* of the news people, not even one, recognized
> that the sermon title might be based on Bertrand
> Russell's famous and thoroughly devastating short
> volume called "Why I Am Not A Christian."
> 
> So I asked several of my office people today if they
> were familiar with the work.  I was terribly disappointed
> to find that few of them had even heard of Bertrand
> Russell.  Oy!  I thought *I* was the illiterate savage!
> 
> Is Bertrand Russell really that obscure in modern
> times?  He had such an impact on my own thinking
> in my younger years.
> 
> spike
> 
> 
> 
> 
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