Re: MD On Faith

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Oct 18 2004 - 14:21:18 BST

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    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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