List of agnostics

[Phillip Greenlief]

great, now that we've well established that the search for god is really just 
latent narcissism, can we move on?

 





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From: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
Subject: List of agnostics

“It seems to me, Usbek, that all our judgements are made with
reference covertly to ourselves. I do not find it surprising that the
negroes paint the devil sparkling white, and their gods black as coal,
or that certain tribes have a Venus with her breasts hanging down to
her thighs, or in brief that all the idolatrous peoples represent
their gods with human faces, and endow them will all their own
impulses. It has been well said that if triangles had a god, they
would give him three sides.”

—Montesquieu, Persian Letters, 1721, translated by C.J.Betts, 1973.

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> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Michael Bailey
> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...it's just so obvious that all human conceptions of G-d are, like, well, 
>>subject to the conditions of the person doing the conceiving...and thus humility 
>>and humor would seem to be in order
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