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10 Oct 2024 10:23:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Just a passing thought on religion  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 14 Jan 2009 16:34:41
Message: <496e5a71$1@news.povray.org>
Saul Luizaga wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> And, no, you are the one confusing wishful thinking with the idea that 
>> just because you find "comfort" in an idea it has to be "right". How 
>> often is that "ever" true in the real world?
> 
> More than you or any other Atheist would ever be willing to admit, I 
> have a pragmatical logic too but there are things that when you analyze 
> them has subtle spiritual features if you are willing to admit such a 
> possibility, not for spirituality it self, nor for religion nor science 
> but fir truth sake. I believe there is more than meets the eye and more 
> than science in the Universe.
> 
I spent years "looking" for those features, and occasionally, almost, 
convincing myself I had found them. Stop telling me what I have, did, 
would, or can do.

> Finally I'm sorry but I won't read what the Atheist ex-Priest wrote 
> since I think Atheist are short sighted spiritually and they just 
> speak/write from that POV, maybe later as a curiosity.

Very.. Open minded of you. Oh, wait, no, I mean the other word. 
Seriously, what they hell make you think that your opinion of what you 
"think" atheists are like gives you the right to imply that none of them 
can have anything useful to say on the subject. Nothing you have said to 
this point has truly offended me, but hand waving away a willingness to 
examine someone else's opinion, based solely on your own preconceptions 
of the "short sightedness" of someone's "spiritual" views? No, I would 
argue instead that you have narrowed the definition of what *can be* 
spiritual so much that anything that isn't about **your** kind of 
spirituality gets "automatically" defined as "shallow", but its like 
listening to some old geezer tell me I am clueless because I don't think 
that Andy Griffith was the "pinnacle" of television, and that everything 
after, including everything made in other countries, has all been useless.

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