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- From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: God and Science: The Ramblings of The Nightstalker
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 15:26:48 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- In article <1e78bdINNppi@gap.caltech.edu>, ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:
- =Speaker-To-Minerals sayeth...
- =>It's been my experience that there's frequently a vast gulf
- =>between what Christians pay lip service to and what they actually do. When
- =>they start claiming the stuff to which a large number of Christians only pay
- =>lip service as one of the accomplishments of Christianity, I won't let that
- =>pass unchallenged, especially when there are many non-Christians who actually
- =>DO what so many Christians only talk about.
- =
- =Well, to be fair, isn't it the case that the vast majority of people fail
- =(sometimes by a large amount) to live up to their professed ideals? I know
- =there are times when I've caught myself, before or after the fact ...
- =
- =No-one's perfect. I will pay a certain amount of respect to a person who
- =has a set of morals, tries to live up to it, and fails.
-
- That's true. However, please look again at what I said. Paraphrased, it was:
- When Christians start claiming credit for a sort of behavior that's
- not demonstrably more prevalent among Christians than among the
- populace as a whole, I won't let that claim go unchallenged.
-