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To: Quila
All of your religions are equal to me, all claims to Truth equally valid.

What about the claim that "not all claims to Truth [sic] are equally valid"? Is that claim also "equally valid"?

Relativists typically end up arguing that "All truth is relative, except the 'truth' that all truth is relative, which is absolute". A logical system constructed around such blatant special pleading isn't a very sound system.

17 posted on 04/19/2002 10:53:01 AM PDT by Campion
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To: Campion
"All truth is relative, except the 'truth' that all truth is relative, which is absolute".

I heard Frank Peretti yesterday on Focus on the Family. This is a paraphrase.

Relativists say we all create our own reality. In that case, you created me. So if I bother you, take it up with yourself...

18 posted on 04/19/2002 10:54:58 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Campion
Relativists typically end up arguing that "All truth is relative, except the 'truth' that all truth is relative, which is absolute". A logical system constructed around such blatant special pleading isn't a very sound system.

I didn't say that. I only said that to me all of the claims are equally valid. I should have perhaps said it more blatantly, that all of the claims are equally invalid, with nothing really to support them.

19 posted on 04/21/2002 2:10:53 AM PDT by Quila
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To: Campion; askel5
GOP Golden Oldie:

"Our government makes no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith. And I don't care what it is."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

28 posted on 04/23/2002 8:29:23 AM PDT by Romulus
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