X-Message-Number: 20038
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:00:19 -0500
From: Jeff Dee <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #20034 - #20036
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> Rudi writes:
> 
> The posting today by Natasha was OUTSTANDING!  And a refreshing change from 
> most of the response getting air time regarding the tragic and vicious acts 
> of 9/11.
> 
> Where is the outcry against IGNORANCE, SUPERSTITION, REGIONALISM, and 
> FUNDAMENTALIST RELIGION that is at the heart of the 9/11/01 attacks?

Here's a link to an essay I wrote shortly after 9/11/2001. I presented 
it at a secular memorial ceremony conducted by the Atheist Community of 
Austin, Texas:

http://www.atheist-community.org/library/wtc_gathering.htm

Of course this is not nearly enough to overcome the tide of religiosity 
that's swept in to take advantage of the tragedy, but I thought you 
might like to know that at least a few of us are speaking up.

-Jeff Dee

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"It is as morally bad not to care whether a thing is true
or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to
care how you got your money as long as you have got it."
-Edmund Way Teale, "Circle of the Seasons", 1950

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