James, Dan and all,
    I think you may want to reassess your opinion of atheists if you take
some time to examine this site:

http://www.positiveatheism.org/index.shtml

But see if you can find among these atheists any who would wish to support
a pogrom against the "believers", an argument no doubt but more often than
not a defensive one. But I think you may be surprised to see in whose
company you will find yourself.
    And Dan, I think Hitler was a Roman Catholic, granted not a very good
one, but it was the Catholic party's vote which put him and the Nazis in
power in the Reichstag in 1933.
    How much rarer and precious does it make that 1%?

Charles

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>From: Stoner James <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Take atheism for granted.
>Date: Thu, Mar 21, 2002, 11:29 AM
>

> Dan:
>
> You said:  Doesn't it frighten you that about 99% of this planet's
> denizens are (generally) mindless adherents of one formal religious
> sect
> or another?
>
> I'm not certain why such a thing should frighten me (us.)  As an
> atheist, you are also closed off to the possibility of a theistic
> alternative.  As an agnostic, it is both closed mindedness and
> intolerance that I most fear.  Atheist, Muslim, Jew, Christian -- its
> those among them that are closed minded and intolerant (more
> appropriately referred to as fundamentalist) that scare me.  They scare
> me because they want to make everyone else like them.  The long for the
> nostalgic notion of their own grand narrative being imposed and coerced
> upon others.  Thank God (oops) the atheists haven't organized, but
> there are the fundamentalists among them; they would annialate theists
> if they had the chance.
>
> Most of us ARE mindless adherents to something or another.  Because we
> use language, and it is taken so much for granted, it makes it
> necessarily so.
>
> $.02
>
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