G. K. Chesterton put it best: "When a man stops believing in God he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything." (Full disclosure: GKC never said actually this, his most-quoted remark, but it was too good a line to pass up here <http://www.chesterton.org/qmeister2/any-everything.htm> -- how rare to have the Web clear up, instead of create, confusion about a quote. I recall someone once noting that GKC got it backward -- i.e., that someone who believed in God in the first place already showed a predisposition to believe anything :)
Carl
>Carl Remick wrote:
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>>Join the 14 Per Cent Club! We Won!
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>>By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
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>>derive from a recent study from the Pew Research Center disclosing, in the
>>words of Katharine Seelye of the New York Times on May 9, that a recent
>>study from the Pew Research Center found that 45 percent of Americans
>>believe little or nothing of what they read in their daily newspapers.
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