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Re: A Lego display fund raiser
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 1 May 2001 18:53:09 GMT
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Warning, semantic slicing and dicing ahead. :-)
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Based on what I've seen of
> your interactions with various christians here, specifically on issues where
> religion or belief have strong relevance(1), you appear to fairly
> consistently hold a stance that their belief or faith is not valid (or
> perhaps, less valid) because it doesn't hold up to critical thinking.
I would agree except to say that it should read "is not valid for me" or "I
cannot accept it as valid within my framework". I acknowledge that others do
find it valid. I judge *them* only on outcomes, not intent or internal
consistency.
> I may
> be misreading you here, but that sounds like a bias. Not, I grant you, a
> bias that appears to interfere with impartial judgement, but still a bias.
I don't think that's a bias, but I am willing to posit it as such as long as
the key point stands... it doesn't interfere with (my) impartial judgement.
I put great stock in my reputation among critical thinkers here (1) and
would not be pleased to be thought not to have impartial judgement.
Helps? I think your clarification did...
1 - it is left as an exercise to the reader to discern what I care about my
reputation with those who are not critical thinkers.
++Lar
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| (...) Hmm, OK. I'm not certain that the distinction is relevent most of the time unless you're actually in a debate about perceptions of reality, but I'll grant it to you anyway. :) (although taking this any farther is *really* splitting hairs) (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Sure. :) (...) Hmm. Bias is perhaps the wrong term for it - I've never seen you reacting to a christian in a neutral environment, so I can't accurately call it bias, I suppose. More after the definition... (...) Dictionary.com's definition (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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