Re: GIVE YALE THE FINGER


"Cuthbert Thistlethwaite" <nosillygods@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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1MAN4ALL wrote:

. . .

But, I do hate many of the ideas you espouse.

But first you have to understand them, which I don't think you do!

One need not be an ordained priest to be qualified to criticize the
Vatican; one need not be an imam to be qualified to criticize islam,
etc. etc.

Any human being with reason and common sense is qualified to criticize
religion, because religion cannot stand up to either.


I agree that some aspects of religion can't stand up to it under some
circumstances. For instance, the once-religious (*and* once-common-sense)
notion that the Sun revolves around this planet couldn't stand up to to
reason allied with progress in data-gathering methods. But I'm inclined to
believe that the existence (and also the *non*-existence) of some kind of
universe-transcending Creator will forever remain questions unresolvable by
reason, common sense, and technology.


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