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From att!compuserve.com!73647.1215 Sat Aug 17 05:08:29 EDT 1991
Date: 17 Aug 91 02:45:06 EDT
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
To: <>
Subject: Re: cryonics #396 - Re: Write California Senator Watson!

Perhaps this man might consider carefully his own attitude to politics,
and ask himself just how clean he really is.
				Thomas

Subject: Re: cryonics #397 - Re: Write California Senator Watson!

Dear Al & friends
As I've written to John himself, I found his approach more astounding than
offensive. And I too have libertarian sympathies. But for John and others
I have a story to tell which will tell the wiser part of them to take 
thought much more deeply:

When I was in Australia, and teaching at ANU, a Spanish atheist came from
Spain to live in Australia. As everyone knows, Spain is so Catholic that
any other mode of life than reference to the Church cannot be imagined by
many Spanish: the Church is their cosmos, with nothing outside it, anymore
than we can think of anything outside the Universe. And as happens with all
countries there are atheists in Spain, people who see the vast majority 
in the Church and decide that the claims of the Church are empty and its
promises are empty too. But to be an atheist in Spain is very different  
than to be one in the US, or in Australia. It must occupy your whole life;
you will form groups to promote atheism, you will stand on street corners
and preach it to everyone, found atheist bookstores, and never speak to 
anyone without reminding them of the nonexistence of God. And so he came to
Australia, and tried to found an Atheist Society there like those in Spain.
And I do not think he ever understood why so few Australians showed any
interest at all.

An interesting story, yes?
				Thomas Donaldson

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