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From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re: Religious topics
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:52:40 -0700

FTR:

I'm not sure what people took away from my last
post, but I don't want to "debate religion" so
much as to suggest that we will save more people's
lives if we market directly to atheists rather
than to theists or to mixed audiences.  Not that
we reach enough people in any case that we would
see any statistical difference in odds of
1 in 7.5E-6 rather than 1 in 3.6E-7, so maybe
it doesn't matter....

Live long and prosper,
Kennita

Steve Bridge wrote:

> I have to come down on Bob Ettinger's side on this debate.  We gain  
> nothing
> for cryonics by debating religion.  If your interest is strictly in  
> debating
> whether or not there is a god or gods and whether some religion is  
> true or
> false, I would suggest that is not a useful topic here.  Cryonics  
> is a technology,
> not a religion or philosophy.  Joining a cryonics organization  
> should be a
> practical decision, not a religious one.  It's like health  
> insurance.  Alcor has
> a number of suspension members who are religious and least a couple  
> of the
> patients (possibly more) who were active in their religions.  CI  
> probably has the
> same experience.

Live long and prosper,
Kennita

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