Posted by SLS on October 2, 2006, at 18:11:43
In reply to Re: untrue religions » SLS, posted by Dinah on October 2, 2006, at 17:13:29
> Why would you think she meant yours? Or any particular religion?
I was speaking hypothetically, Dinah.
It could just as easily have been me who felt put down by the statement. Actually, I did feel put down, as I indicated in a previous post.
The logic in the statement yields nothing less than the proposition of the possible inferiority of the reader. To process the logic further, at most, only one religion can be all true. The reader is then faced with the proposition that the author would choose for himself the religion that was all true. If the reader's religion is different from the author's religion, then the reader has just been told that his religion is not all true. Only a religion that is all true can be Truth. Therefore, any religion that is not all true is not Truth. The author has, in effect, made the statement that his religion is the only true religion and that all other religions are not true religions.
> Is there some context I'm not aware of?
I purposely avoided the context of the rest of the post when I originally defended the sanctioned phrase as perhaps deserving of a second look. I thought it might give evidence of intent. I preferred that the phrase be judged as a logic statement independent of context. I thought it would have a better chance of being deemed acceptable.
- Scott
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