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To: atlaw; narby
Why do you enjoy Narby's loss of faith so much?
 
Well, Narby has accused me of emphasising Scripture that has destroyed his faith.  He has claimed that us "C" folk, by believeing in God's Word so strongly, are undermining the country.
 
I think it's a bit over the top, so I, likewise, am posting that way myself.
 
I'll leave you with this:

 



Regarding this interjection, Martin Gardner writes:

"Darwin himself, as a young biologist aboard H.M.S. Beagle, was so thoroughly orthodox that the ship's officers laughed at his propensity for quoting Scripture. Then 'disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate,' he recalled, 'but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress.' The phrase 'by the creator,' in the final sentence of the selection chosen here, did not appear in the first edition of Origin of Species. It was added to the second edition to conciliate angry clerics. Darwin later wrote, 'I have long since regretted that I truckled to public opinion and used the Pentateuchal term of creation, by which I really meant 'appeared' by some wholly unknown process." [stress added] (Gardner, 1984)
 
 

From here ---> http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/DarwinDayCollectionOneChapter.html


248 posted on 08/01/2005 2:36:04 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie; atlaw
post #236, 248

Demonstrate the absurd by being absurd...where have I heard that before? (RL)


atlaw, at least with Elsie its a gentle nudging. like giving someone the needle.
to assume its done with malice is again absurd
263 posted on 08/01/2005 2:50:35 PM PDT by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com)
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To: Elsie
Well, Narby has accused me of emphasising Scripture that has destroyed his faith. He has claimed that us "C" folk, by believeing in God's Word so strongly, are undermining the country.

No single thing opened my eyes about the fantasy I believed. But you helped.

I'm sure you help others find flaws in their faith in the same manner. Is that your goal?

Your blind faith, combined with millions of others taught the same thing, does have the threat of bringing down western civilization to another dark ages. My history isn't great, but looking from here it wouldn't surprise me that Christianity "helped" the Roman civilization in the same way.

280 posted on 08/01/2005 3:23:52 PM PDT by narby (There are Bloggers, and then there are Freepers.)
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