Subj : Re: "Hams to the Rescue After Katrina" MSNBC News Article
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From : Uncle Ted
Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 19:56:41

From Newsgroup: alt.ham-radio.vhf-uhf

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:57:36 -0400, "Vito" <vito@crosslink.net> wrote:

>"Uncle Ted" <malican40@verizon.com> wrote
>> If not an atheist, what do *you* call a person that doesn't believe in
>> some big sky fairy called "God", or that some Jew-on-a-stick died and
>> came back to life some two thousand years ago, or any other deity for
>> that matter?
>
>"Agnostic". Look it up.  An athiest denies the existence of any god; an
>agnostic says it is impossible to know.

"Agnostic" is a cop-out word for someone that doesn't want to admit
that they're an atheist. It just sounds nicer. If you say that it's
impossible to know if there is a god or not, you obviously don't
acknowledge the existence of any god. That makes you an atheist.

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