From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Oct 18 2004 - 14:21:18 BST
On 13 Oct. msh wrote:
> The confusion you're all struggling with here arises because,
> somewhere in time, whomever introduced you to religion (nay, poured
> religion into your brains) forgot to mention this subtle distinction, if
> even they were aware of it. The result is you have a bunch of fully grown
> adults going around thinking, for example, that some guy actually walked on
> water, multiplied loaves and fishes, was crucified, died, and was buried...
> then rose from the dead. This makes for a lot of heavy back unloading of
> bs in the later years.
As a result of the scientific worldview, we have a bunch of fully grown
adults (a bit of redundancy there) going around thinking, for example,
that existence accidentally arose from a mathematical abstraction, life
accidentally emerged from dirt, and consciousness accidentally
materialized from a lump of meat. By comparison, resurrection appears
infinitely reasonable. :-)
Platt
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