Posted by SLS on October 5, 2006, at 12:30:17
In reply to Re: I understand, but still... » SLS, posted by Toph on October 5, 2006, at 9:48:47
> Scott, I don't mean to belabor this but I went to the original thread and was curious about your initial reaction to Ray's comment:
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> >> but not all religions are all true.
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> > Perhaps none of them are. If no two religions are exactly alike, then at most, only one could be the Truth...
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> Why should not your concurring statement be deemed uncivil also?
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> http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faith/20060614/msgs/690529.html
That is a very good point, Toph, and I don't know how to respond to it other than to describe how I came to write that. To describe how I came to write that would entail detailing to you how I interpreted the statement in question and my emotional reaction to having someone state it, especially in public. It also involves the conclusions that I had reached about the author's beliefs and his motivations.It is actually unnecessary, and would be uncivil, for me to provide such an explanation. The logic is self-evident, and anything more involves jumping to conclusions about the author. Is that a satisfactory explanation?
I guess not.
I'm sure you are familiar with the concept of rhetoric.
What I attempted to do was to suggest the possibility that even the author's religion could not be all true and to demonstrate how absolute making such a statement like his was by positing the one Truth theorem. In other words, I found him out. Get it?
Maybe?
- Scott
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