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To: AnAmericanMother
you sure like calling things Straw men. Perhaps it is because it is easier to do that than refute the answer. Now that is a real straw man.
49 posted on 02/21/2008 10:02:46 AM PST by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: CzarNicky
No, it's a well known device in rhetoric.

You keep using it. I'm just calling it by its proper name.

If you prefer I not use the rhetorical term, that's o.k. In plain words, you are attacking something you created, not the actual proposition. In other words, you are arguing with yourself.

Reason and logic are not ends in themselves. You can over-intellectualize, doubt, and deconstruct yourself into believing in absolutely nothing at all.

C.S. Lewis, once again, has seen it all before (probably because he began as an atheist intellectual):

Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now… You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

- The Great Divorce

I highly recommend Lewis, by the way, as a guide to the essential elements of Christianity. You could do worse than start with that book, which is one of the finest he ever wrote.

52 posted on 02/21/2008 10:17:58 AM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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