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Re: Nature of man (was Re: Problems with Christianity)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:31:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
> > Here's my somewhat final word on this:
> > People of Faith "have faith" that they KNOW the Truth, and nothing others say
> > will change their mind (not a single Christian in here has even remotely
> > acknowledged that Buddhists or other religions MAY be right and Christianity
> > wrong).
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> Bzzt, wrong. Thanks for playing, though. I have acknowledged before (and
> will again) that I don't necessarily have the low-down on Truth. I think I've
> got a decent understanding, but I've never claimed I can't be wrong. I can't
> hunt down the specific cite right now (and, to be honest, am likely too lazy
> to do it some other time), but it was somewhere in the 'morality vs ethics'
> thread a year or so ago.
I'm a stubborn old goat, sometimes. Found the cite.
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You can have whatever opinions you want. It ain't my place (or anyone else's)
to say otherwise. I will also make judgement calls (of others) based on my
moral code - I just won't claim that my judgement (all other things being
equal) is any more valid than someone else's judgement. For all you and I
know, the clams(1) could have the hotline to universal truth <shudder>.
I dunno. Personal experience seems to indicate that whenever someone starts
talking good and evil, they are almost invariably claiming a hotline to Truth,
and that gets under my collar, I admit. IMHO, human understanding is, and
will always be(2), flawed and subjective. This translates into "You don't
know you're right, any more than I do".
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(quoted from: http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=3090 )
James
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