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To: betty boop

I’ve always wondered why it seems so important for people to have labels attached to their beliefs.


3 posted on 09/28/2009 9:54:28 AM PDT by stuartcr (If we are truly made in the image of God, why do we have faults?)
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To: stuartcr

Perhaps because the wrong label at the wrong time might get you burned at the stake, or worse.


11 posted on 09/28/2009 10:35:04 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: stuartcr
I’ve always wondered why it seems so important for people to have labels attached to their beliefs.

Same reason we have money, instead of a barter economy: it makes for convenient shorthand.

Labels work fine for a lot of things ... so long as we don't hold on to them too tightly.

It can go too far, of course ... to the point where the labels supplant the ideas themselves. Just check into one of those Calvinist threads on premillenial dispensational whatsis-ism and you'll see the point.

18 posted on 09/28/2009 11:13:28 AM PDT by r9etb
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