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From: Hilton Obenzinger <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:56:22 -0800
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>     Now I've come to see that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a
>different faith.  If I'm not mistaken, it's takes more faith to not
>believe that it does to believe.


I don't want to discount all that you've said -- which is very interesting
and moving -- but these sentences I think sum up Mark Twain's situation,
above all.  He worked very hard at being a believer -- even in his unbelief.

Hilton Obenzinger
Stanford University

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