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- From: bil@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Bill Conner)
- Subject: Re: Deliberate Ignorance
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:56:52 GMT
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- I'm sure (being a charitable man) that the following response makes
- at least some sense, could someone tell me in what way ...
-
- Bill
-
- : I have to take exception at your way of describing the atheist handling
- : of biblical material. Lots of great minds wasted much time with that dull
- : book so I can hit Xians over the head with it!
- :
-
- What follows next is even more obscure. Am I to take the following
- four statements as containing information or are they just random
- groupings of letters ...
-
- Bill
-
- : Eg, a combination of these doesn't make an atheist case?
- :
- : * Early Xian tradition (<150 AD, as evidenced in non-biblical writings)
- : * Biblical support
- : * Long tradition in all Xian subcults
- : * Xian denying its place in the dogma
- :
-
- Ah! Here comes a clue. It appears that His Most Ultimate
- Non-sequiter, does not speak our native tongue, hence the confusion.
- What follows though is strong evidence that logic is not his native
- state of mind either ...
-
- Bill
-
- : Eg, lot's of Xians locally in Sweden speek very quitly about hell.
- : That pisses me off, since I have to first show them lots of references
- : of early writings that really gloats in the punishment for us, the
- : unbelievers (and others) before I can give moral arguments for what an
- : inhuman religion they are members of! (No smiley. I have done this!)
- :
- : Then there are, to me, at least one known case of pure history lie in
- : the bible (see Russel: A history of western philosophy (or what it's
- : original title is).
- :
- : I'd say your post was a half-OK try at an excuse for religious people.
- : Soon you'll say that they should be left alone, since they seem happier
- : with their religion, and happiness can't be bought for money. My answer
- : is that the total happiness in society goes downward with more religion
- : (sociological effects of intolerance, if nothing else). Besides, I can't
- : stand when people live happily on lies I can't make myself believe. .)
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