XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism   
   From: samharrigon@gmail.com   
      
   Ben Kaufman  wrote:   
   > >Salmon youth, Adonis, Amergin, Fionn, Myrddin, The Turquoise   
   > >Bee, and a few  more so far even though I have done very   
   > >little library research after 1997 (I expected readers   
   > >would come forward with more data but none have).   
   >   
   > There is no question that Moses is purely fiction.  The Exodus story was   
   created   
   > to give a heritage to "expatriates"  of Egypt who lever by mundane means over   
   > time, who eventually referred to themselves as the Hebrews.   
      
   Every religion, from earliest times, has hated and condemned those who   
   could not believe whatever it was that those old religions happened to   
   believe. Throughout the ages there have been the 'intellectual outlaws'   
   who have questioned the "unquestionable," and doubted even the very   
   existence of the gods. And those individual thinkers have been hated,   
   hunted, persecuted, and murdered by the religious believers. Yet the   
   Atheists and doubters are very much with us today, but those old   
   religions, and the gods they created, have long since ceased to trouble   
   the thoughts of mankind.   
      
   If Atheism is considered to be a religion, then it is easily the oldest   
   living religion in the world. Properly stated, Atheism is truly "that   
   old time religion" that the Baptists keep singing about.   
      
   Atheism is a difficult subject only because of the slander and   
   misrepresentations preached and published against it. Even the   
   information that is available in our most trusted and respected   
   reference books is the distorted and prejudiced view presented by   
   religion. Just as in Communist countries, where the articles on   
   Capitalism, democracy, politics, etc., are always written by Communists   
   and from the Communist point of view, so in Christian dominated   
   societies, such as the United States, all articles on Atheism,   
   Rationalism, Freethought, etc., that are to be found in encyclopedias   
   and other reference books, are written by theologians, and from the   
   Christian point of view.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)