"... On Aug 26, 11:12 pm, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: ..."
> Gruff, excellent dance around my questions and point! Very artful! While I preen at your comment about my artfulness, my dance was not deliberate. > But I won’t let you get away with it so easily. Now there's the Orn I know and love. > First, to be clear, I agree with you overall in your opinion about the > apparent non-validity of such attitudes as hope for salvation from sin > etc. So, no need to avoid the reality that there do exist an > inordinate number of people who DO hold such beliefs, be they rational > (which would be the way of knowledge, which it isn’t) or not. Just > because one doesn’t agree with how some group thinks, believes, > practices etc., to ignore the FACT that so many people DO exist like > that seems to reject that aspect of reality. I don't think I was implying that I ignore any aspect of human behavior. I agree that a vast majority of our species believe in the 'book' as you say and while I may become irritated with them at times, I certainly don't ignore them, nor do I discount them in the grand scheme of things. Even misguided thoughts and beliefs have an impact on society as a whole, especially when they are in such a majority. There are far more individuals who believe in religion -- religion of all kinds -- than there are who believe there are no such things as gods. > Or, perhaps I’m missing something here. Is it your claim that if > someone doesn’t think/believe the way you do they don’t exist? I'm somewhat puzzled how you came to that potential conclusion. I don't think I've ever expressed such a thought.
