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   From: donlhumphries@bigpond.com   
      
   "Aggie"  wrote in message   
   news:Aggie-E7DB8D.13305101052009@bignews.usenetmonster.com...   
   > In article ,   
   >  fasgnadh  wrote:   
   >   
   > > For most of human history, from Epicurus to Hume, atheism   
   > > was irrelevant.   
   >   
   > When, and how, in human prehistory does fasgnadh claim the first gods   
   > were born? Do our cousins, the apes and monkeys, have their own gods?   
      
   # Yeah, old fas's argument is essentially - Atheism is evil, thus Atheism is   
   untrue".   
       Conversely, he also claims, "I am morally pure, hence, God exists".   
       An Ancient philosopher said that if oxen had a god he'd be in form of an   
   ox.   
       Our anthropomorphic deities hark back to Ancestor Worship and the feared   
   Old Man of the Tribe.   
       The common characteristic of deities is that they are all "dead".   
   Figments of the human imagination.   
       If you have a god, trot him out!   
       People are godless in the sense they have thrown away the crutches of   
   religion.  Ethics are social, and adults don't need Big Daddy to tell them   
   how to behave.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)