Re: regarding the YINYANG post on extropians

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Jul 28 2001 - 00:57:46 MDT


Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> Party of Citizens wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> >
> > > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> > > > > I fear the day when people turn on Extropianism as a false religion.
> > > >
> > > > Is it then a TRUE religion?
> > >
> > > No. It is not a religion at all.
> >
> > Is it founded on truth...present and future? Does it stand for something
> > other than truth? If so, what?
>
> Something founded on fact is not considered religion, since religion
> relys on faith unsupported by any facts or testable phenomena.

This is a meaningless criteria that has no logical necessity for
determining what is and is not a religion.

- samantha



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