On Mon, 07 Oct 2002, you wrote:
> First of all, James, let me explain to you why I'm
> writing this.  I like to frequent websites like yours
> and give my humble opinion. 

        After reading your text, HUMBLE is RIGHT!  :o)

> For instance, you said
> people who believe in an after-life are crippled and
> religion is their crutch.  I was wondering if you're a
> big Jesse "The Body" Ventura fan. 

        Nope, barely know of the guy, I'm not a redneck.  However, until you
said this, I didn't know he was atheist, that's a good thing to know.  :o)

> He said the exact
> same thing on national television not to long ago. 

        Actually, he said "Religion is a crutch for weak minded people who need
strength in numbers."  I believe he was quoting (as I was) the writing of Karl
Marx, who wrote the now famous line, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." 
Marx also said, "Religion is a crutch for those who are too weak to face life
alone."  You really should do your research better, start with the google
search engine (as I did) before you openly make a fool out of yourself.  :o)

> Do
> you usually get all of your deep insights from media
> personalities and joker goveners? 

        Or communists?  Just because a communist says something anti-religious,
and I quote him, does not mean either I or the wrestler are communists.  Other
noteworthy people share our atheist viewpoints, as you can see below.

"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit
in with our instinctual wishful impulses." -Sigmund Freud

"Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless
world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the masses."
-Karl Marx

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." -Napoleon Bonaparte

"I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of
rational decision, to drain people of their free will, and a hell of a lot of
money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject
them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a
malfunctioning brain." -Gene Roddenberry

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with
sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -Galileo 
Galilei

"Religions are all alike, founded on fables and mythologies." -Thomas Jefferson

"I do not believe in a God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil."
-Albert Einstein

"And it's hard to be free, when you're down on your knees. Take it easy til
you make it alone." -The Goo Goo Dolls 

"Religion is all bunk." -Thomas Edison

"I don't believe in God, because I don't believe in Mother Goose." -Clarence
Darrow

"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need
strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other
people's business." -Jesse Ventura

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality
at any point." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter, than you and I;
and all religion, is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed,
imagination and poetry." -Edgar Allan Poe

"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that
has ever infected the world." -Voltaire

"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have
seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the
church." -Ferdinand Magellan

"i put my faith in god and my trust in you, now there's nothing more f*cked up
i could do" -Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails)

"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." -Thomas
Jefferson

"I should like to see, and this will be the last and most ardent of my
desires, I should like to see the last king strangled with the guts of the last
priest." -J. Messelier of Paris, dated 1733 

"The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes
God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the
political behavior of Western Civilization." -Robert A. Wilson

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create
him." -Arthur C. Clarke

"In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have
said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the
subject with my last breath." -Robert G. Ingersoll

"Infidelity is liberty; all religion is slavery." -Thomas Paine

"It was, of course, a lie that you read about my religious convictions, a lie
which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and
I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me
which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the
structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." -Albert Einstein

"The U.S. has more churchgoing than any other major democracy and it reports
much higher rates of murder, rape, robbery, shootings, stabbings, drug use,
unwed pregnancy, and the like, as well as occasional tragedies such as those at
Waco and Jonestown. There may be no link between the two conditions, but
the saturation of religion has failed to prevent the severe crime level.
Societies rife with fundamentalism and religious tribalism are prone to
sectarian violence. In contrast, England, Scandinavia, Canada, Japan, and such
lands have scant churchgoing, yet their people are more inclined to live
peaceably, in accord with the social contract. The evidence seems clear: To
find living conditions that are safe, decent, orderly, and 'civilized,' avoid
places with intense religion." -James Haught

"When I became convinced that the Universe is natural-that all the ghosts and
gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of
my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom." -Robert G. Ingersol

"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these
shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for
centuries." -James Madison

"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and
do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming
feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology." -Thomas Jefferson

"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of
intelligence." -Bertrand Russell 

"Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror.
Kill everyone and you are God." -Jean Rostand

"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
religious conviction." -Blaise Pascal

"I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking,
feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe
that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural  traditions that assert an
afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking."
-Carl Sagan

"The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is
no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little
good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look
Death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent
opportunity that life provides. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it
really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
-Carl Sagan

> I noticed also that 
> you claim to be an atheist, but also very religious. 
> That seems a contradiction in terms dosen't it.  Let 
> me  qoute the New Expanded Websters Dictionary,
> "atheist:  one who disbelieves in the existance of a
> God".

        If you had read my page more carefully, you'd have seen this link.
http://www.antichrist.net/james/definitn.html

> Understand, James, the games you are playing
> are very serious. If you knew that, you would stop.

        It's a silly waste of time, really.  :o)  Fellow atheists understand my
reasoning for it, it amuses us to confound the weaker minded primates.  :o)  I
have never (and will never) "convert" anyone to atheism, because you either are
capable of atheism, or not.  The detent position seems to be religious.

> There are prophecies that warn of the things you like
> to talk about. Trust me when I say you ought to take a
> closer look at your ideas. You are obviously very
> commited to what you believe since you've had this web
> site for six years.  But service to antichrist always
> has a price.  I would really like to know if the money
> you spent on this website was worth it.

        It costs virtually nothing to keep this site up, so long as the size is
small (as it now is).  At one point, it cost $400 a month to host 200 megs of
content, but I've winnowed it down to the bare essentials to cut costs.

> Please, James,
> just think about it a little harder. Spiritual warfare
> is very real and you are on the wrong side. Trust me. 
> All religions believe in one form of god or another,
> how can you claim to be religious?  You know you're
> not an atheist and you know who you serve.  Why else
> would you want to destroy Christianity, like it says
> on your website?  Why single out Christianity?  I
> think you know.

        If I were in Australia, I'd single out islam, but since I live in the
bible belt of the "great U S of A" I single out the blight around me here,
which happens to be christianity (the most dominant religion).

Cheers!
James - forever atheist and antichrist.