Officially OT -> Re:My fiscal responcibility...

[J. Schaap]

>"Mnay people have such beliefs, simply because they've been brainwashed
all their lives with such things."<

Judging you by your own standards:

Many people have such *unbeliefs*, simply because they've been
brainwashed all their lives with such things.

J. Schaap

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 06:22, James Knott wrote:
> cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> >>On Sat, 22 May 2004, Lloyd Budd wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>On 22-May-04, at 22:55, James Knott wrote:
> >>>
> >>>You say God it is just fiction .  Prove it ;-)
> >>
> >>     Why should one believe in god any more than the monster under the
> >>     bed? Or the tooth fairy? ......
> > 
> > 
> > Well, we _know_ those were characters fabricated to entertain children,
> > just like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed
> > Reindeer.
> > 
> > The only places where those get taken seriously is in terms of box
> > office sales at the movies.
> > 
> > In contrast, serious people have taken quite seriously the notions of
> > "supreme beings."
> 
> George W. Bush being one of them.
> 
> Mnay people have such beliefs, simply because they've been brainwashed 
> all their lives with such things.  At one time, serious people believed 
> that the world was flat.  Just believing something doesn't make it so.
> 
> 
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