From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org]
Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 7:43 PM
To: Gary Amirault
Subject: RE: atheism is caused by pride?


> It's About Love
> By Gary Amirault
> 
> I have
> experienced the Lovingkindness of My Maker in ways that are impossible to
> describe in any human language.

How convenient. :-) I could as easily say: I have experienced 
the non-existence of your deity in ways that are impossible to 
describe in any human language.

> As an atheist, the words "I love you" were difficult for my lips to form.

That one atheist is emotionally dysfunctional isn't very strong 
evidence that a carpenter from Nazareth was divine. Indeed, if you 
chose to believe in Christianity because of the placebo effects you 
needed it exert on your life, your personal experiences don't 
constitute evidence for Christianity at all.

> Here are some of my favorite quotes on Love from my " Gary's
> Favorite Quotes" database. Save them. Print them out. Pass them on.

Based on my previous analysis of your quotes about confronting Truth, 
you might as well add: "do ANYTHING but apply them."

> if you have some favorite quotes on Love, send them to me.

Of course, none of this mixture of poetry and banality does anything 
to support your thesis about the carpenter from Nazareth. Also, I 
notice that none of your quotes bother to define Love, except perhaps 
to naively equate Love with indiscriminate altruism, or to vacuously 
equate Love with Goodness. If you want a definition of love, and an 
explanation of why love is not the only or even the most important human value, 
see http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html#WhatToDo.

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