Well, that's the rational definition. The kooks at American Atheists are always pissing themselves about how agnostics are just weak-willed atheists or atheists without a backbone. They play the same kind of trick that Southern Baptists do. American Atheists define anyone who does not have a positively asserted belief in God as an atheist. So, in their view, agnostics, most buddhists, daoists, and even babies are all atheists. It's just a game to make their numbers look a lot larger than they really are.

The reason I say this is like the Southern Baptist strategy is that Southern Baptists will claim in one argument that there are over 1.3 billion Christians in the world. Then, in another argument, they will say that Catholics (about 1 billion right there), Eastern Orthodox and other Eastern churches like the Nestorian and Coptic churches (assuming they've even heard of them since a lot of them don't believe in this place call "outside the USA", unless it's somewhere we bomb, but that's a part of their double-think), Lutherans, Methodists, Episcopalians, Anglicans, and just about everyone else that is not them are not really Christians. They'll claim 1.3 billion Christians in the world and then turn around and say that about 1 billion Christians (Catholics) are agents or dupes of Satan.

So was Hitler. What's your point?

But you don't understand! This is America! The only way to solve a problem is by kicking ass.

I collect spores, molds and fungus.

But, in Soviet Slashdot, saying goes without YOU!

You know, if you look at some of my other posts, I'm a fairly liberal live-and-let-live kind of guy. But, considering what the Somali pirates are doing, the only solution is to kill the bastards!

You must be new here.

So, if I beat the shit out of you with the back of my hand, it's not really assault?

Then, please do us all a favor and kill yourself. You will not be missed.

To die. In the rain. Oh wait, that was Ernest Hemingway.

That's it! I really must protest you and GP's libelous remarks about monkeys! Monkeys form communities. They look out for each other and care about the social groups they form. They lament the loss of their loved ones. Do lawyers or the RIAA do any of this???

How dare you, sir!

Well, as I understand it, Kim il Jong is not long for this world (thankfully). Maybe his son will be more reasonable? Or, at least we can start on him early and try to do better with the next generation of North Koreans. Plus, the North Korean citizens growing up now are part of what is called "the stunted generation" due to the food shortages in the 90's. Despite desperate flag waving, some of them probably realize it is not America's fault that they grew up so severely malnourished.

And don't forget the concentration camps in North Korea. If you don't show the utmost fealty to the Great Leader, or if you defect, your whole family will be sent to one to work as slaves until they die. That's one of the reasons defections are so rare. That, and to get through the electric fences separating North and South, you need two people willing to defect. One of the two will almost invariably be electrocuted trying to get through the electrified wires.