--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Judy, > > I hoped you would weigh in on this topic. Thanks for the great > quotes and links to the reviews. I will enjoy giving them some > more thought to see where I fall on their comments and piece > together my response. I have more to gain intellectually from the > critiques than the books themselves! That is where the edges of my > understanding lie.
This is kind of the point I made to Barry a few posts back, that "mutually respectful exchange of views" is all very well, but it's the adversarial context of vigorous debate that really enables one to challenge and refine one's beliefs. One does wonder, however, how much challenging and refining of their beliefs the authors of these books will engage in as a consequence of the points raised in the various reviews. It would be fascinating to hear the arguments of an atheist who had gone to the trouble to bone up on the non-fundamentalist theological positions (and even some of the more sophisticated fundamentalist positions, perhaps; they're not all simplistic by any means).
