>>4. I don't think that believing Stephen's dogma when it's false is only
>a
>>"very mild bad". If this is really the only life that I have, I don't
>want
>>to waste it on a lie.
>
>On the other hand, recent scientific (?) studies indicate a positive
>health benefit. For the average person, spending an hour in church and
>throwing ten bucks in the plate is more beneficial than spending an hour
>in a bar and giving the ten bucks to the bar keep.
>
>billwald@juno.com
in that case allow me to recommend Unitarian-Universalism. It has all
the advantages of church without the disadvantages. You can toss
money in the plate, listen to a good sermon and not be required to
believe the unbelievable.
Susan
-- ----------I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is bound to shew why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct species by descent from some lower form, through the laws of variation and natural selection, than to explain the birth of the individual through the laws of ordinary reproduction.
---Charles Darwin
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