> -----Original Message----- > 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. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
