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From: karl@osu-dbs.UUCP (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: What religions say
Message-ID: <562@osu-dbs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Apr-84 09:21:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 19 09:21:39 1984
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Organization: Ohio State U., CIS Dept., Columbus
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Rich Rosen:
                         The "evidence" that proponents put forth in favor of
their particular beliefs does not bear up under scrutiny.  And that is the crux
of the problem.
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I have to disagree.  You, Rich, constantly provide forms of scrutiny
for my system of beliefs.  You are one of the reasons I continue to
read net.religion, exasperating though it becomes.  Your scrutiny has not
caused me to conclude that my beliefs do not hold up.  On the contrary,
your scrutiny has only reinforced them.  The crux of the problem, I
think, is that those who try to scrutinize a system of beliefs seldom
deal with the system of beliefs itself, but only with appearances of
{that,those} system(s).  The two are not the same.
-- 
"Confusion will be my epitaph."  -- King Crimson, 1969
Karl Kleinpaste @ Bell Labs, Columbus
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