> --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > > I had a good run with this topic so I really can't complain. > > Too bad I can't prove that Barry wrote the Bible! >
--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > If you could do that I'm pretty sure everyone > here knows that not only would she join you in > ragging on its ideas and their stupidity, she'd > say it was bad writing. :-) Yes mocking certain individuals is a moral duty but mocking ideas is a moral failing. I got the formula. But it did demonstrate one of my main points (thanks Sam Harris) which is that religious ideas are held in a protected class. They are shielded by people who don't believe in them as if the people who believe them are delicate children whose feelings must not be hurt by someone challenging the idea as unsupported by reasonable evidence. In this one area of human "knowledge" alone are the standards of debating an idea suspended, we must treat this class of ideas as beyond refutation or criticism. We must give the appearance of going alone with whatever cockamamie concept is presented as the will of God even though we have a history of every other claim about the natural world in scripture that can be refuted by science having been proved false. And most of all we must never challenge the virtue of people believing things through faith alone, without evidence of any sort, by merely asserting that it is so. Even though this standard for knowledge is exactly the opposite one from every other human intellectual discipline that we value in modern society. Just tell the emperor his new clothes are magnificent like everybody else. ><curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Joe" <geezerfreak@> wrote: > > > > > > Judy get off her high horse??? Never going to happen > > > Curtis my man. But I admire your continued effort to > > > have discourse with her being WAAY up there and you > > > being a lowly blues singer and all... > > > > I had a good run with this topic so I really can't complain. > > Too bad I can't prove that Barry wrote the Bible! > > If you could do that I'm pretty sure everyone > here knows that not only would she join you in > ragging on its ideas and their stupidity, she'd > say it was bad writing. :-) >
