--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > I think everyone here has misread Harris's viewpoints, > which might be expected from this type of group.
> Harris does not deny the existence of unbounded eternal > divinity or anything else in that realm, he just says > you can say with certainty that it exists, or say it is > "Truth" that it exists. I think you meant "cannot say with certainty," right? > Harris properly points out the dangers of believing in > these sort of absolute unprovable Truths without realizing > that they're actually just your own belief systems that > you own for whatever reasons, good or bad, but he's not > denying anyone the right to hold their belief system - > whereas religionists have a tendency to want to deny any > other belief system which does not conform to their Truth. The problem is that you get into an infinite regress here. Harris *is* denying religionists the right to believe that their beliefs are absolute Truth. That is the *foundation* of their belief systems. Sullivan, as far as I can see, is not trying to convince Harris that Christianity is Absolute Truth; he's trying to show Harris that Harris's reasons for asserting that Christianity *cannot* be Absolute Truth are not well grounded. As I said to Barry, the argument isn't symmetrical in this regard.
