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