"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false..." - Atheism vs Christianity

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Silts

More options Aug 28 2008, 11:33 am

From: Silts <siln...@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:33:00 +0800

Subject: Re: [AvC] Re: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false..."

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Thanks BM, hope TG, medusa and the rest of the ladies won't grill me for
this :(

Love this group, coz aside from getting wise/clever responses exactly what I
need; someone also can check the spelling for me : )

How I wish TG can already give you a hug and cookies for all this bluemage :
)

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:30 PM, bluemage <MageSt...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Aug 27, 7:17 am, Silts <siln...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false,
> > and by the rulers as useful." (Seneca the Younger, 5 BC – 65 AD)

> > Could anyone share his thoughts about his definition of "common people"
> from
> "his" is gender biased. It would be best to sacrifice grammar at the
> altar of political correctness and use "their" as a plural possessive,
> even though it is meant to be a singular possessive. If enough people
> use "their" in the plural sense it will catch on.
> > the above quote in relation to what Christians claim to be famous "wise"
> > skeptic St Agustin of Hippo converted to Christian. St Agustin is
> > considerably "wise" right? correct me if otherwise, so does this mean his
> > conversion takes away this "wiseness" and turned him into one of the
> "common
> > people"? If yes, please elaborate how. Thanks.
> Don't read into the quote too much. Seneca is just saying that he
> thinks religion is bullshit.
> And it's Augustine. Please use spell check. Download Mozilla firefox.

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