> From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Fool wrote: > > > >No. A falsehood is a falsehood. > > > A falsehood is a falsehood is a syllogism :-P > > >A biblical literalist is not a rational person. You can't argue with a > >biblical literalist. I know, I've tried, many many times. They are > >incapable of seeing things rationally, > > *Most* religious fanatics are not rational. But some religious > fanatics are rational, and most religious people are rational
If some were rational, those some could be talked out of having idiotic religious beliefs. > [as far as most people can be rational...]. Religion has > resisted the attack of at least 300 years of logic. Because most people, aren't all that smart, and all that rational. Just look at these judge shows on tv. People usually accept what authorities tell them is true. > >> Take, for example, the biblical text that defines > >> Pi equal to three. Any engineer would treat this > >> as a measurement error :-) > > > >But god is supposedly omniscient. God would know what the correct answer > >is and 'inspire' the correct answer. Where is the correct answer? > This is hubris. Perhaps. > _You_ think you know what God thinks. Why God > didn't write the cure for cancer in the Bible, instead of those > rules of how a son of Levi should dress in certain ceremonies? I have high standards. God (this one anyway), does not meet those standards. The god of the bible is supposed to omniscient, but bible verses contradict this. The god of the bible is supposed to be omnipotent, but bible verses also contradict this. The god of the bible is supposed to be good and do good things, but bible verses show this god doing evil. The god of bible is supposed to be unable to lie, but bible verses show the god of the bible lying and instructing others to lie. The god of the bible is supposed to be able to predict the future, but the god of the bible gets the future [now the past and present] wrong. The god of the bible is a fraud. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
