Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2 From: amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: anti-religious flame Message-ID: <756@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 12:41:37 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.756 Posted: Thu Mar 8 12:41:37 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Mar-84 02:20:10 EST References: <692@hscvax.UUCP> <824@hscvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 13 hscvax!partridge has said that people who believe in God are stupid assholes (his term). The reason that this phrase works in turning off believers who might wish to discuss God with him is that it instantly proclaims him to be a boor, and, strange to say, even non-believers tend not to associate with people who want only to insult them. The only answer to him is "you're another." The difference is that it can be proven in the case of partridge. John Hobson AT&T Bell Labs--Naperville, IL ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2