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To: lugsoul
You took offense to being called an atheist! Yet, lookie what I found in your profile:

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell

Surprise Surprise Surprise. Russell- one of the most rabid anti-christian atheists of all time - and lugsoul quotes him. That says alot in my book. No wonder you treat me and my views like a fanatic - Russell would! hahahaha. BUSTED!!

328 posted on 01/09/2004 11:51:23 AM PST by exmarine ( sic semper tyrannis)
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To: exmarine
Okay, one more breath, since you are such an obvious idiot.

Bertrand Russell was not an atheist. At best, he was an agnostic, and he wrote at length on the difference between the two. He was also a physicist and a mathematician, and a poet and a philosopher. I know that in your mind I would be agreeing with every word he ever uttered if I simply posted one of his mathematical theorems on my home page. But, for those of us who are capable of agreeing with one thought or sentiment of a man without accepting or rejecting their entire body of thoughts as a result, I will say that the quotation was posted because of the sentiment it reflects, not because of the man who said it - a concept I'm sure you struggle with. And, I would also add, that of the many here who represent perfect examples of the truth of the quote, you are near the top of the list.

330 posted on 01/09/2004 11:55:40 AM PST by lugsoul (And I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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