Tim Fairchild wrote:
Just because a christian based religion has different beliefs than your
christian based religion doesn't make it wrong, does it?
Well, yes, to a degree. Either the word "Christian" (or "Islamic" or
"Zoroastrian" or whatever) is susceptible of some kind of definition or
it is not.
My religion is
better than your religion?
It is not even a question of "my religion". I am not a Jew, but if
someone says to me, "Jews worship a big blue monkey who lives on top of
the Sears Tower," I feel absolutely no compunction at replying, "You,
sir, are a bozo."
Obviously, there are sometimes going to be gray areas, but if it is not
possible to say at some point, "Whoa! That simply isn't what
Christianity says," then it is not possible to hold a rational
discussion on the subject at all.
--
John W. Kennedy
"The bright critics assembled in this volume will doubtless show, in
their sophisticated and ingenious new ways, that, just as /Pooh/ is
suffused with humanism, our humanism itself, at this late date, has
become full of /Pooh./"
-- Frederick Crews. "Postmodern Pooh", Preface
