Well, in fact I have read both Aquinas and Aristotle, M.T., although certainly not in toto, and not for thirty years or more! :>) It's no problem to me if the deeper students of Christianity want to wind their way into different defintions of their own terms; but it would be nice if they'd get that third person singular male pronoun out of their semiotic mesh. It makes it too easy to associate the deep propositions with the shallow, hearing them encoded in such similar language, if ya see what I mean. I maintain that the common-use defintion of atheism does not equal, necessarily, a-spiritualism. But it is a tiring and abstract point which is not going to bear much fruit, I am afraid. I prefer to escape the tangle foot by using more baggage-feree functional descriptions. But I don't think it makes me a-religious to do so!

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