At 8:51 AM -0600 3/1/01, Jim Guinee wrote:
As a psychologist, I am more interested in what people actually _do_ in the
name of religion than what the Words of the religion actually dictate.
>I am drawn to the writings of C.S. Lewis, perhaps the greatest Christian
>theologian of the 20th century. When commenting on the difficult theology of
>Christianity, he suggested that one way to view it as God's word was that if
>people had really invented Christianity as a religion (for one reason or
>another), they would have made it a lot simpler.
Certainly _one_ explanation (and a nice one-liner).
But as a rationalist (and I suspect that Stephen would join me), I would
question whether it's the most parsimonious, and therefore the most likely.
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