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To: Matchett-PI
CS Lewis was a very brilliant Oxford person.

He's completely right about science and belief, and helped me along many a time.

His best assertion: Jesus was either God, or he was an insane person. The things He said claimed His own divinity and therefore disqualified Him from being just a great human philosopher, prophet or philanthropist.

I keep the assertion in mind because I know that the Moose Limbs venerate Jesus as a great philosopher, prophet, and philanthropist, which He is not.

86 posted on 11/24/2008 8:41:37 AM PST by caddie
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To: caddie
His best assertion: Jesus was either God, or he was an insane person. The things He said claimed His own divinity and therefore disqualified Him from being just a great human philosopher, prophet or philanthropist.

Non Sequitur. The fact that someone makes outlandish claims on one subject does not necessarily disqualify that person from being respected on other subjects (though it does give grounds for increased scrutiny and skepticism).

For example: Isaac Newton spent developed a rather bizarre skein of "Biblical prophecies" of the sort commonly found these days in vanity-press crank literature. He spent more time and effort on this pursuit than he did in laying the foundations for modern mathematics and physics. That does not make him any less a genius in the latter fields of endeavor.

119 posted on 11/24/2008 12:13:22 PM PST by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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