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From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob])
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: A Challenge
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Date: Mon, 7-May-84 12:26:09 EDT
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The "Challenge" of Daryel Akerlind is difficult to meet.

My personal Christianity is not objective to the degree
that Daryel or I would like, i.e. parts of it are not
thoroughly rational.  

How can I rationally discuss that "I know" something to be
true with an almost infinite certainty.  That experience
has been mine on several occasions and proven to be true
on items that I should have objectively had zero knowledge.

Anyway, even what I just wrote is fraught with subjectivity.


Of course, nobody is required to be a Seeker of Truth but I
notice that many of the Skeptics of the Net appear just plain
hostile to faith, supernatural things, religion in general,
and Christianity in particular (probably because of majority
status in the culture).  Certainly it would make for dull
reading if Rich and the Agnostic Hordes just rolled over and
played dead, but I detect a meanness of spirit in a lot of
what passes for skepticism.

"By the way, this IS net.religion"

"How do you know that is true ? Where's your evidence?"


Bob Brown {...clyde!akgua!rjb}
AT&T Technologies, Inc.............. Norcross, Ga
(404) 447-3784 ...  Cornet 583-3784