Re: "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians"



On 10 Feb 2006 17:32:09 -0800, "Vladimir Bondarenko"
<vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


The good Christian should beware of mathematicians
and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger
already exists that the mathematicians have made a
covenant with the Devil to darken the spirit and to
confine man in the bonds of Hell.

-- Saint Augustine




Hmmm, As I recall, it was in a high school math class that I had the
revelation that turned me to atheism. Realizing "god" was an
unprovable hypothesis was a great burden lifted from me. Unfortunately
for Augustine's theory, I ceased to believe in the devil at the same
time.


Ray Wesley Kinserlow Jr.
Lubbock, Texas
rkinserlow at cox dot net
homepage: www.members.cox.net/rkinserlow
.



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