Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: autodesk!bobert@uunet.uu.net (Robert Murphy) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Conspiracy Theory and Christianity Message-ID: Date: 9 Mar 91 03:45:18 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA Lines: 17 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article mangoe@cs.umd.edu (Charley Wingate) writes: >Texe and Wanda are in fact doing christianity a great disservice. They are >unwittingly selling the opinion that christians are ignorant rubes by acting >like ignorant rubes and insisting that all good christians must do likewise. This is a behavior which is, unfortunately, by no means limited to Texe and Wanda. I have found it to be endemic in fundamentalist circles among both "shepherds" and "sheep", and it was one of the main reasons for my exodus from those circles after ten years of involvement. Basically, I got fed up with people who equated faith with credulity, and simplicity with stupidity, and insisted "that all good christians must do likewise." Or, as I used to say, "They checked their brains along with their coats when they went into church, and only remembered their coats on the way out." Bob Murphy bobert@autodesk.com