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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Will the -REAL- Christians please stand up?
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 04:13:24 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.194127.16374@walter.bellcore.com> <1993Jan5.004243.5643@cs.unca.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan5.004243.5643@cs.unca.edu>, kepley@cs.unca.edu (Brad Kepley) writes:
- |> >moral authority. Of course, their leaders are human and make mistakes, but
- |> >they never admit it. They can't, because after that admission, all of their
- |> >decisions and positions on all sorts of issues would be suspect:
- |>
- |> Oh? I thought I read that they had recently found Galileo right, and
- |> themselves wrong, albeit some 400 years late :)
-
- Well, let's put it this way. If I were taking moral instruction
- from someone, I'd prefer it be someone who didn't wait four hundred
- years to admit their own mistakes.
-
- Especially so when the mistake was an attempt to suppress Scientific
- free expression by force.
-
- jon.
-