From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!wagar Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: theism/atheism/agnosticism Article-I.D.: yale-com.790 Posted: Thu Feb 3 12:55:07 1983 Received: Fri Feb 4 03:35:25 1983 References: amd70.1370 Tom Hicks' logically determined that the virtuous "middle ground" consists of fact and faith, but then jumped off on a tangent by saying this implied theism. Theism implies a belief in god(s), and while god(s) are all very well to believe in, I fail to see why this particular brand of belief deserves any more attention than belief in everything else (except that it is a focal point of Western religions). The term Tom Hicks should have used is religious, which (at least according to the dictionary) means faithful, devout, believing. Any number of organized religions are not theistic. I didn't submit this article in defense of obscure Eastern religions, however. I happen to hold a religious viewpoint in which god(s) play no larger role than Greek mythology does in Christianity. -Steve Wagar decvax!yale-comix!wagar