XPost: alt.religion.jehovahs-witn, rec.ponds, alt.atheism   
   XPost: alt.history.ancient-worlds   
   From: penguin_boy@mindOBVIOUSspring.com   
      
   What's so funny about peace, love and Tau'ri    
   posting the following on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:43:41 -0400 iin   
   alt.atheism?   
   >John Baker wrote:   
   >> On 2 Oct 2005 13:29:00 -0700, geister@mailinator.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >> I'm afraid I must be missing your point here, assuming you had one.   
   >> What have Ithaca and Osysseus to do with atheism?   
   >   
   >Atheist ridiculize everything writen by old sheepherdeares etc. If there   
   >is no proof it is not true. Ithaca was never proven to be, hence it is   
   >not true. why bother with history?   
      
   If there is no proof, then it is unproven.   
      
   The Illiad and The Odessey barely qualify as history.  They are to a   
   serious history of the Trojan War what "War and Rememberance" is to a   
   serious history of WWII - fiction based on real places and events.   
   --   
      
   Douglas E. Berry  Do the OBVIOUS thing to send e-mail   
   Atheist #2147, Atheist Vet #5   
      
   "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as   
    when they do it from religious conviction."   
           Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pense'es, #894.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)