On 4/26/2011 10:19 AM, andrel wrote:
> On 26-4-2011 0:50, Darren New wrote:
>> On 4/25/2011 14:16, andrel wrote:
>>>> That's weird to me.
>>> Oh no, not again!
>>
>> I wasn't planning to discuss it further. I just wanted to be sure I had
>> understood your objection was to a deity, rather than a particular deity
>> interested in the doings of mankind.
>
> It is not so much an objection. The point is that being an atheist has
> become so much part of me over the years that a God in any form is not
> compatible with being me. Or to put it more technically, we are mutual
> exclusive. Either a God exists or me, not both at the same time.
> Part of the discussion with Jim was also that I think this sort of
> philosophical ideas creeping into your being is more common that you
> might expect. If they do they, become undiscussable. You and me notice
> that in religious people, but without really being aware of it, it might
> happen to you too, and it probably has. That also implies that we are
> less rational than we like to think.
> Although our level of irrationality is nowhere near that of some
> religious people. (But they might say the same)
>
Twain once stated something to the effect, "You could house all the sane 
people in one asylum, but if you tried to house all the insane ones, you 
would run out of building material."

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