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To: Pawtucket Patriot

What are your religious beliefs or knowledge?


26 posted on 01/19/2009 10:08:16 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
None. I’m a non-believer who doesn’t define himself by non-belief.

I would be described as an Objectivist/Aristotelian/secular humanist. The highest value for me is to live a happy, fulfilling, flourishing life. And for the time I'm here, I want to live in a world with similar individuals who love their lives and who pursue their own happiness through their creative activities, whether they’re raising a child to maturity or a business to profitability, whether they’re writing a song or a poem or a business plan or a dissertation, whether they’re laying the brinks to a building or designing it or arranging for its finance. But this kind of world requires that we oppose the irrational ideas and ideologies, whether they’re found in religions or political, that are crippling and destructive. Many individuals find in religion a comfort/inspiration that can be found elsewhere, without the downside of religion. You can find a lot of my work on The Atlas Society website, www.atlassociety.org. I also call your attention to my “Objectivist Secular Reader,” which is described at this link:
http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth-13-2036-Obectivist_Secular_Reader_Published.aspx

You can find most of the articles The Atlas Society website if you do some looking around but it’s best to get the book! As to my knowledge, I have a Ph.D. and I'll let you judge from my ideas and writings!

27 posted on 01/19/2009 10:34:58 AM PST by Ed Hudgins (Rand fan)
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