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To: Hieronymus

Oh I see. So that’s it? I’ve heard others complaining about his womanizing, or his atheism, or his belief in evolution more.


271 posted on 05/27/2019 9:37:46 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

None of those other things count at all in his favour, but they are common enough failings in men and university professors. One would need a good reason to opt for some one with any of those feelings. Arguments made about JFK on this thread take such things into account.

I recall picketing a pro-abortion rally at Cornell with Sagan as one of the main speakers.

Still, someone can have these failings and still have a corrupted form of the virtue of magnanimity. If you have someone who is too good to pull his share of weight on what he professes is his core vocation, I don’t see much hope without serious transformation.

Maybe your extra 30 years would have served to make a man of him.


287 posted on 05/28/2019 3:21:48 AM PDT by Hieronymus ("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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