I hope you realize that by citing Rousseau I was just throwing another iron into the fire, and it just so happens that it's an iron I don't agree with. Remember, I'm a non-theist.

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"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."-- Einstein

Oh, I wasn't blaming you, Metis. I was blaming Rousseau, and the many, many alive today who hold the same viewpoint. I understood that you were merely adding grist to the arument mill.

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