🚀 go-pugleaf

sschaff@roc.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Stephen F. Schaffner) writes:
> [Gene Kochanowsky writes:]
>|> 	Or if you are a bible thumper try this quote for size:
>|> 
>|> 		"proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing"

>	I doubt I've ever thumped a Bible, and I can't imagine a reason for 
>thumping a bible, but I'll bite anyway: where's the quote from?

Of course, this quotation isn't from the Bible; it's from "The 
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."  One wonders if this is where
Kochanowsky, Houghton, et al. get all their information about
religion.  Since they seem unable to imagine the existence of any
kind of humane, tolerant religion, in which doubt is regarded as an
adjunct of faith, and unable to get their minds around the idea that
one can hold in one's head both science and religion (go read Pais's
life of Einstein, OK?), and bent on filling up space with their 
intolerance disguised as liberal atheism (don't try to out-liberal me,
Houghton ;-), I figure the best thing is to ignore them.  Just like
I ignore street preachers.