Hi DMB, very sharp with your sarcasm in response to the "Coming Soon" thread, but you choose not even to acknowledge your error here ?
I'm only about 1/3 through End of Faith, but glad to see his clarity on several aspects - qualifying the moderates he's attacking / talking about specificaly as "religious moderates", qualifying faith as the kind that's "not open to empirical evidence", and in an excellent chapter on the wide-ranging nature of belief, recognising several times the idea of "actual" beliefs (ones on which people act in reality, as distinct from merely "professed" beliefs.) and the idea of "denial" in the split mind of professed and actual beliefs - the hypocrisy I've been banging on about for many a year. I can see why his style put me off a couple of years ago ... to many bald generalised assertions "We (people in general) .... ", "Religous people (in general) ...". Clearly it is his style to shock, but the content is good. Reading on. Ian On 1/24/08, ian glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi DMB, the distinction was in the word "profess" - highlighted in > scare quotes and omitted from your caricature of what I said. Your > point was about "actual" beliefs - the ones that actually drive their > actions - the difference between professed and actual beliefs is > hypocrisy - a subject I've also raised before. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
