Religion, Science, & a Freethinker in a Fire Station

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>>------Original Message------
>>From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>>Sent: January 15, 2001 5:37:29 PM GMT
>>Subject: Religion, Science, & a Freethinker in a Fire Station
>>
>>The New York Times
>>January 14, 2001, Sunday, Late Edition - Final
>>SECTION: Section 6; Page 34; Column 3; Magazine Desk
>>HEADLINE: The Bush Years;
>>Confessions of a Lonely Atheist
>>BYLINE:  By Natalie Angier; Natalie Angier writes about science for
>>The Times.  Her latest book is "Woman: An Intimate Geography."
>
>What's with the NY Times promoting atheism?  I thought that
>they didn't care what kinds of superstitions the unwashed
>masses imbibed in as long as the profits of capital
>were left undisturbed.  Is it possible that some
>of the economic and political elite may have at long
>last had its full of rightwing religion? If so,
>why now?
>
>Jim F.

I wouldn't overestimate the article, though.  I posted only good 
parts.  The rest of the article is meek & mild.  Angier ends it on 
this note:

*****   Believers and doubters alike will always be with us -- and 
it's just possible that we need each other more than we know.  As 
Kevin McCullough, a member of the Fellowship of Christian 
Firefighters, told me of his debate with the doubting Monson [the 
free-thinking firefighter]: "If he's seeking the truth, I don't think 
he's there yet.  But he makes me think, and he brings up good points, 
and that's good for me.  It helps strengthen my own beliefs."   *****

Yoshie