Posted by stephen snead on December 27, 1996 at 09:24:26:
First I want to thank Jason for a very intelligent and honest response to my last post. The other day while in my bathroom I saw a very ugly sight. A waterbug. call orkin quick. Actually I smashed it. But,not untill I looked and thought about something. If the atheists were absolutley right. Then that bug had as much dignity as I do. The bug ends the same as a human. Now I want to be careful here because the internet is wide open and I don't want to say anything that would disturb any unstable folks. But,if I believed that there was no more to me than a bug. If I really thought that humans were simply intellegent beasts at heart. No soul. Then I would be the meanest s.o.b. on the planet. No limits. What ever I could get away with. You have absolutely no right to judge Hitler,Stalin or Manson or Dalmer. Now I am not and will never be a violent person. I think the people I just named were monsters. I'm simply giving you a point that any honest atheist has to at least aknowledge. Please don't start with the glourious evelution of mankind. It does not change the banility of a souless world. Fundlementalism always breaks down at it's core. Reliogous or Atheistic. It just will not stand up. to a thoughtfull mind. I think that evelution (and yeah I need spell checker) should be taught as the best answer biologically for science classes. But,be careful of substituting dogma for science. One thing I have learned in my life. Everyone has an agenda. on the new age pages you will get fluff and highminded cosmic evolved little gods. On religion you get some honest quest for understanding and some reliogous mind controll dogma. Same for the new agers. And on these pages you get the (we are to intellegent to believe in anything but ourselves and what mr.randi and mr.gardner will pat us on the back for. Well to all of you I say Your god's too small. And finally please remember. We can caricature anyone. From Carl Sagan to Hugh Ross. But,only when we listen and search can we learn.