domfox wrote:
>
> I'm probably nearer to "a/theist", but I enjoyed it too.
>
> Schoolfriend of mine used to alter the words of the hymns we had to sing in
> chapel to make them derisive, or statements of vehement unbelief. I didn't
> grok the vehemence. I would have understood protesting against the fact that
> we had to be there, but he seemed to be protesting against something else
> again. I would say - speaking for him, of course, and perhaps he would say
> otherwise - he had, after all, an image of god in mind, and what he objected
> to was anybody *worshipping* anything as monstrous as that god would have
> had to be. A daily ritual of blasphemy, denial, curses and imprecations
> hurled at the mad, blind, senile, sadistic Nobodaddy would have suited him
> just fine. And whatever that is (Dennis Potter would have understood it),
> it's not atheism.
>
> Dom
I would agree. When asked my affiliations I usually say I'm a
Judeo-Marxist Gnostic. Which usually ends the party. - FP
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