“Your personal page contains some sloppy scholarship as well...” ~ Agamemnon
Well, we can’t have that, can we? bttt :)
Click my screen name and scroll to the bottom of the page to read the disclaimer I just now added.
Disclaimer: FReeper “Agamemnon” has complained about the “sloppy” way I have presented these postings on my profile page. **Because many of the people I quote speak in the first person, he is unsure if I am either Alan Bellows, Prof. Robert Harris, Phillip R. Johnson, Gregory Koukl, James Freeman, John G. Reisinger, J.P.Holding, Christopher M. Sharp, or an unnamed employee of James Kennedy. (I think I’ve named them all). In order to address his, and any others’) concerns, I want to make it clear that I am not any of those people named above. Since Jim Robinson knows me personally, he can attest to it. :) Here: http://www.freerepublic.com/~matchettpi/index
**Name references:
Written in the first person: “I have revised that phrasing to “absurdly improbable.”
Unskilled and Unaware of It by Alan Bellows
http://www.damninteresting.com/unskilled-and-unaware-of-it
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Written in the first person: “Here is a collection of materials I used when teaching a college-level course on Critical Thinking.”
What is Critical Thinking - or How do I acquire “true” knowledge?
Critical Thinking Materials by Prof. Robert Harris
http://www.virtualsalt.com/think/
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Written in the first person: “I’m troubled when terms like ..”
the law of contradiction by Phillip R. Johnson.
http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/articles/lawofcon.htm
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Written in the first person: “The reason I say I’m not sure why is because ..”
America’s Unchristian Beginnings? ©1995 by Gregory Koukl
http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5097
Written in the first person: “I think the answer depends entirely on ..”
“...Thomas Payne and Ethan Allen, for example, were in no- wise intellectual architects of the Constitution. Rather, they were firebrands of the Revolution. Was that important? Sure, they made an important contribution, but they weren’t Founding Fathers. Period. ...” America’s Unchristian Beginnings? ©1995 by Gregory Koukl http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5097
Written in the first person: “My question is, how do you..”
Star Light & the Age of the Universe - by Gregory Koukl
http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5639
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Written in the first person: “One of my favorites includes this quotation from 1774..”
The reason why “We The People” are in charge
Thomas Jefferson, religious freak” by James Freeman - USA Today July 10, 2000
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1454702/posts?page=66#66
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Written in the first person: “Now I am aware that many have lost their taste for historic confirmation of the message they declare, but this is only because they do not like the company they are forced to keep as they walk back into time”
Boiled down to their essence, there are only two religions in the whole world.. Everyone, including atheists, belong to one or the other.
by John G. Reisinger http://www.the-highway.com/2religions.html
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Written in the first person: “I will omit, however, such things as Chapter I where ..”
A Bigger Paine in the Posterior Thomas Paine’s “The Age of Reason” Dissected
By -JPH (J.P.Holding Tektonics.org) http://www.tektonics.org/lp/painet02.html
Written in the first person: “These myths I believe cause harm to the church..”
Leading Christian Myths By -JPH (J.P.Holding Tektonics.org)
http://www.tektonics.org/af/christianmyths.html
Written in the first person: “I have long since come to a conclusion ..”
Why Bible Critics Do Not Deserve the Benefit of the Doubt
By -JPH (J.P.Holding Tektonics.org) http://www.tektonics.org/af/calcon.html
Written in the first person: “whom I debated on the issue of Jesus’ existence at..”
Atheist Frank Zindler’s “The Real Bible: Who’s Got It?” Critiqued February 20, 2005
By -JPH (J.P.Holding Tektonics.org) http://www.tektonics.org/uz/zindler02.html
Written in the first person: “Like you I am a Christian, and like you I...”
Astrophysicist writes Dr.James Kennedy. (Response below his letter)
By Christopher M. Sharp http://csharp.com/kennedy.html
Response by An Employee Written in the first person: “It is my opinion that you are correct..”
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PS: I’m curious. Out of all those people named in my disclaimer above who speak in the first person, what is really bothering you about person who wrote the letter to Kennedy and his employee’s reply? :)
PS: I’m curious. Out of all those people named in my disclaimer above who speak in the first person, what is really bothering you about person who wrote the letter to Kennedy and his employee’s reply? :) Your "disclaimer" as you call it, and as it now seems to pertain to serial misappropriations of first person quotations on your personal page, is certainly more than a day late, now isn't it.
By your own admission you manifest still more evidence of sloppy scholarship. Your original posting to this thread is just the tip of an iceberg's worth of sloppy scholarship, it seems.
What I can say is that I knew D. James Kennedy. I spoke with him in person and at length about topics related to the compromises some who call themselves Christians make with respect to the "evolutionary" world-view and the schism it has caused within the Christian church. He was a friend of my family for some 35 years until his death. Suffice it to say, when I wrote him, he replied by letter to me, not through some faithless mouthpiece by eMail.
You've chosen to reproduce an "eMail" of suspect origin and questionable pedigree from what could at best be termed an institutional "mole" -- or someone made to appear to be as one -- as though it was some sort of representative reply from Dr. Kennedy or his ministry. And you did this as if to say this was actually a meaningful "...(Response below his letter)."
Your intent is clearly to diminish Dr. Kennedy and his ministry by inference.
When I choose in the future to point Freepers to a prime example of some of the sloppiest scholarship on this board, I'll be sure to have them take note of any posting you make and send them to your personal page for more examples of the same.
Consider yourself exposed, "mole."
