Re: Commentary: Designs on Us

ToniG wrote:
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>>>>From the article:
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>>In a wonderful irony, the only intellectual framework in which people
>>can genuinely be expected to pursue truth dispassionately, even if that
>>truth undermines our sense of personal prestige, happens to be the
>>religious framework, in which people aren't animals at all but rather
>>beings created in the image of God.
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>
> The above has to be the maddest paragraph I've read all year. It's
> *fascinating*, actually, that these kooks really seem able to believe that
> the 'religious framework' they advocate stands even *an outside chance* of
> 'pursuing truth' -- when the very basis of that entire 'framework' is that
> *they already possess all the important knowledge*, since *all essential
> truth was 'revealed' thousands of years ago*! To such an addled brain, the
> 'real laws of the universe' and the ultimate force and meaning behind
> everything are *already known* -- and everything else is mere
> *nail-polish*...
>
> Incidentally, I *love* that bit about how the 'religious framework'
> supposedly permits people to uncover truths 'that undermine our sense of
> personal prestige': only a true kook could assert such a thing about an

So, all that stuff about Original Sin and Total Depravity *isn't*
supposed to undermine our our sense of personal prestige?

These idiots never look at their own traditions, do they?

> orientation that sees human beings as 'created in the Image of God'; able to
> have a 'personal' relationship with this 'God'; possessors of an immortal
> and immutable spiritual essence; the goal of 'creation'; ; ; etc, etc...!

-- Kizhe

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