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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of The Fool
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:12 PM
> To: Killer Bs Discussion
> Subject: Re: Great Sam Harris Interview
> 
> "The most disastrous consequences must follow upon our believing that
> anything false is found in the sacred books....If you [even] once admit
> into such a high sanctuary of authority one false statement, there will
> not be left a single sentence of those books, which, if appearing to
> anyone difficult in practice or hard to believe, may not by the same
> fatal rule be explained away as a statement, in which intentionally,
> the author declared what was not true."
> --St. Augustine in Epistula, p. 28

(True, but not in a literal sense) != False.  

Just think of transubstantiation. 

Dan M.


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