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To: Harrison Bergeron
So, to simply state one opinion constitutes hubris? No, I don't think so. To claim to have "God's knowledge," now there's hubris.

If you believe I'm full of hubris for admitting that I don't know what electricity is made of, then I guess that's a harmless enough belief.

The context of your post was your opinion that had nothing to do with electricity and everything to do with somebodies personal religious faith and hubris. You don't like what they preceive as the teachings of God, so you in *your* certainty imply that they are an arogant self-ordained prophet.

I give this example: People who go to church on Sunday instead of reading a scientific journal during that same period of time have opted for God's knowlegde over man's knowledge. You think that is the hubris of self-ordained prophets -- I think that is an example of people with faith looking for the teachings and knowledge of God.

While I make no claim that you have an anti-religious bias, your statements do communicate an anti-religious bias regardless of their intent.

295 posted on 03/16/2002 8:46:37 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
"I give this example: People who go to church on Sunday instead of reading a scientific journal during that same period of time have opted for God's knowlegde over man's knowledge. "

The pomposity and arrogance drips from your words... to assume one has no faith in God because he's a scientist, what are you, a Moslem or something? How backwards to assume man has no knowledge worth knowing... do you think God gave us intellect for no other reason than to read the bible? Should we ignore scientific journals and the pursuit of reason that will lead to a cure for cancer because, in your mind this doesn't glorify the Lord to your satisfaction?

Too many of you modern day Pharisees confuse having "God's knowledge" with "knowing the mind of God." I don't know of a scientist walking the earth with that level of hubris.

296 posted on 03/16/2002 1:51:18 PM PST by Harrison Bergeron
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