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To: Aquinasfan
"Purity of heart and wisdom go hand in hand. Wouldn't it be in the interest of someone who treats human beings as disposable objects of pleasure to support a philosophy that reduces human beings to mere physical processes?"

This is simply an appeal to emotion. You have no idea how Ruse views those he's had relationships with do you? Or are you contending that anyone who has sex with more than one person necessarily treats others as disposable by definition?

BTW that little nugget of yours' Purity of heart and wisdom goes hand in hand' is a pretty wild assertion. Want to tell me what this 'purity of heart' means, and how wisdom is not possible without it?

72 posted on 12/07/2005 10:54:09 AM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: b_sharp
Want to tell me what this 'purity of heart' means...

It means that it's okay to have sex with lots of people, so long as you don't enjoy it.

Well, it wasn't "purity of body", so you tell me...

74 posted on 12/07/2005 11:00:13 AM PST by Senator Bedfellow
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To: b_sharp
This is simply an appeal to emotion.

It's a logical argument. A person who, unprompted, publicly boasts about serial fornication is most likely someone who regards fornication lightly. Most men who sleep around do so for pleasure, and regard their partners as conquests. I have no reason to suspect otherwise with Mr. Ruse.

Therefore, his ability to dispassionatley judge between the theories of materialistic evolution and intelligent design as explanations for human origins is unlikely, since affirmation of ID entails acknowledgement of a Designer of both physical and moral laws, the latter of which would be repugnant to a whore.

Or are you contending that anyone who has sex with more than one person necessarily treats others as disposable by definition?

And raises his sins in an article putatively dealing with biological science? Yes.

BTW that little nugget of yours' Purity of heart and wisdom goes hand in hand' is a pretty wild assertion.

It's empirically demonstrable. Good people make good philosohers and evil people make bad philosophers. See Marx, Nietszche, Satre, etc. OTOH, the greatest philosophers, Socrates, Aristotle, St. Thomas, St. Bonaventure and St. Albert the Great, were also virtuous people. The books "Intellectuals" and "Architects of the Culture of Death" present an overwhelming case.

Want to tell me what this 'purity of heart' means,

Good. Virtuous.

and how wisdom is not possible without it?

Evil people regard sin as "good" for them. This is false. But from this false assumption they attempt to build a philosophical system that won't contradict their sinful practices. Philosophy based on lies can go in any direction, but never an ultimately good or true direction.

105 posted on 12/07/2005 12:12:08 PM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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