But despite fundamentalism, like what killed Islamic science, it is here for good. (Any interpretation of the ambiguity will do)
Rich On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:12 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 12/5/2013 1:33 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > > 2013/12/5 <spudboy...@aol.com> > >> They are proven false. People leave religions all the time. Often for >> another one. >> > > If they were proven false, what's your explanation of why the catholic > church still exists and has followers ? (or take your pick at any current > religion here on earth) > > > But as I pointed out by quoting H. L. Mencken's "Graveyard of the Gods", > there are hundreds, if not thousands, of religions that have come and > gone. I wouldn't say that they vanished because they were disproven. > Often they have been deprived of adherents by conquest. Some have been > displaced by newer or modified religions. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
