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From: kalm@ihuxw.UUCP (James )
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Why attack Christianity?
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Date: Fri, 23-Mar-84 17:15:19 EST
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> I think that an objective look at the past 2,000 years of history would reveal
> that Christianity has done a lot more harm than good.  Consider, for example,
> just exactly what things would be like if the Roman Catholic Church had managed
> to hang on to the awesome power that it enjoyed in the middle ages.  Certainly
> you wouldn't be reading this article on a computer terminal.  In fact, I doubt
> that any of us would be enjoying the fruits of science, because science as we
> know it would not exist; it would be considered heretical and its practitioners
> would be regularly burned at the stake!

Sorry, I can't buy that!
It was NOT Christianity but greed for money and power that
caused the problems you speak of.
And just because the Roman Catholic Church CALLED itself
Christian doesn't mean you have to believe THAT, either!
"Christian" means a follower of the teachings of one Jesus of Nazareth.


> [1] A good example of this is "scientific" creationism.  Here we have a group of
> people who so firmly believe the creation myth in the Bible that they want to
> bend science to fit their particular view. 

Here I agree with you. It's obvious.

>  Never mind that once you allow a
> supernatural force into science, that science falls apart at the seams
> (if it's not falsifiable, it's not science!).

It would be wise to remember that many forces now known to be 
natural were once considered super-natural.

I give these hints only to help you.
This is not logic, just defintions of terms.
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It would be nice if the submitters on the network would
use less emotion and more logic when they are presenting
their arguments.

Most of the people on the net (whether pro or con anything)
show a definite lack of the ability to engage in logical thought.
(Especially net.flame, I guess that's what it's for).
This wouldn't be so bad if some of them weren't supposed to "computer
scientists". A bit of perusal of some of the software in this
building points out the same problem.

-- 
Jim Kalmadge
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