Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 19:45:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Gilbert Lawrence <[email protected]>
You continue to tickle me pink, by once again assuring us that "church going, create positive and healthy mental attitude which is what is behind the beneficial effects." Goanet atheists have pounded us into submission with their claim that church-going was a wasted activity, generally undertaken by those with no cognitive function. :=)) Mario responds: To begin with, you have seriously truncated what I said to completely change its meaning. I'm not sure why you embarrass yourself by doing this because some of us have far too superior cognitive functions to miss such sly misrepresentations. I wrote, "If one lacks cognitive function to begin with going to church is hardly likely to create what is missing. What I was suggesting was that there are likely to be many social activities, in addition to church going, that create the positive and healthy mental attitude which is what is behind the beneficial effects." In addition: a) The only ones that any atheist has pounded into submission would be Padre Ivo and yourself, but that was because of your own faulty use of scientific evidence and had nothing to do with church going. c) I don't recall any Goanet atheist saying that church going was a wasted activity undertaken by those with no cognitive function. You just made that up, as with all the other straw men you routinely build to make your cases. d) However, they may have accused YOU of lacking cognitive function but for entirely different reasons. For example, faulty memory or recall, or deliberate misrepresentations as we see above when you truncated what I had written. Gilbert wrote: One should not forget that after church / temple, one also receives "the village 'gozal' (news)", which also keeps the individual connected / wired to the outside world, helping their cognition. Mario responds: It was not I that forgot this as a careful reading of my complete quote shown above would confirm. Thanks for making my point that it is the social activity that helps mental health and cognition, not just the church going.
