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Old 02-19-2008, 05:55 PM   #183
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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos View Post
I've met a few people in my day with considerably more formal education than either you or I (I'm thinking of some professors I've had) have and they believed in a Christian god.

A person doesn't get a PhD in European history from Oxford, for example, if he is ignorant and doesn't have an ounce of critical thought in his brain.
And some really (otherwise) intelligent people are degenerate gamblers.

Do you see how this is a poor argument?

And no, it has nothing to do with an addiction. I am not calling religion a "disease" (though some would beg to differ). That is not the direction I'm going with this.
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