From: Jake Sapiens (every1hz@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Oct 13 2003 - 14:52:33 MDT
> [Original Message]
> From: David Lucifer <david@lucifer.com>
> To: <virus@lucifer.com>
> Date: 10/13/2003 10:36:55 AM
> Subject: virus: Re:"Brights" more destructive than good / WSJ attacks
atheism
>
>
> [Keith] I don't self-identify as a "bright" but I can see their point in
trying to
> get away from derogatory labels the way other groups have done.
>
> [Lucifer] Just out of curiosity, what are the reasons that the brights
here do not self-identify with the brights?
[Jake] I suppose I would be considered a bright. But I would imagine that
some brights would not self-identify as such, because to be a bright as I
understand it is not just to hold a particular position about God thingies
(agnostic/atheist), but to adopt a strategy to deal with the issue in
relation to the rest of one's life and other issues important. Yes I am an
atheist, but my way simply isn't the same crusade that Madelyn Murry O'Hare
signed up for.
I also think in light of my understanding and acceptance of memetics, that
the cognitive stickiness of supernatural mythology means to me that a
certain amount of social adherence to religion will follow as naturally as
global warming follows from surplus greenhouse gas emissions. In other
words, I don't really ever start off from the assumption that theists
believe as they do due to some deficit of mental activity. I think many
openly self-identified atheists will often implicitly assume this, and some
perhaps even explicitly. For this reason, I frequently refrain from
publicly "joining forces" with these kinds of atheists.
-Jake
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